US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on Dec. 9 for "Liquid-crystal medium comprising polymerizable compounds" (Taiwanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,344, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Germany).

"Liquid-crystal medium comprising polymerizable compounds" was invented by Timo Uebel (Darmstadt, Germany), Rocco Fortte (Darmstadt, Germany), Qiong Tong (Darmstadt, Germany), Chia-Sheng Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan), I-Hua Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Leo Weegels (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymerizable compound having absorption in the long UV wavelength range, a liquid-crystal (LC) medium comprising the polymerizable compound, and the use of the compound or LC medium for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays...