ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,835, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Optical device" was invented by Jung Woon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Hyun Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Sun You (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Hong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun Jung Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Min Jun Gim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an optical device includes a first outer substrate, a second outer substrate, a liquid crystal element positioned between the first outer substrate and the second outer substrate, a first intermediate layer between th...