US Patent Issued to JNC, JNC PETROCHEMICAL on March 11 for "Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,153, issued on March 11, was assigned to JNC Corp. (Tokyo) and JNC PETROCHEMICAL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal element" was invented by Eiji Okabe (Chiba, Japan), Takanori Mori (Chiba, Japan), Kazushi Shiren (Chiba, Japan) and Yuko Katano (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal composition, which is a material used for an element for electromagnetic wave signal control in a frequency range of 1 GHz to 10 THz, satisfies at least one of characteristics such as a wide temperature range of a nematic phase and a large refractive index anisotropy and a small dielectric loss tangent (ta...