ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,509, issued on March 25, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Optical component" was invented by Izumi Saito (Darmstadt, Germany), Owain Llyr Parri (Feltham, Great Britain), Andreas Taugerbeck (Darmstadt, Germany), Carsten Fritzsch (Darmstadt, Germany) and Dagmar Klass (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical component is described which contains a liquid crystal (LC) medium, operable in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The LC medium, which can be used in the infrared (IR) region, can contain one or more compounds of the formulae I, II, and III in which the occurring group...