ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,386, issued on May 13, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Aromatic isothiocyanates" was invented by Constanze Brocke (Darmstadt, Germany), Carsten Fritzsch (Darmstadt, Germany) and Dagmar Klass (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a compound of formula Gas defined in claim 1, to a liquid crystal medium comprising a compound of formula G and to high-frequency components comprising these media, especially microwave components for high-frequency devices, such as devices for shifting the phase of microwaves, tunable filters, tunable metamaterial structures, and electron...