ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,134, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Polymerizable liquid crystal ink formulations" was invented by Eduardo Beltran Gracia (Southampton, Great Britain), Stephen Mulcahy (Southampton, Great Britain) and Daniel Walker (Eastleigh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to polymerizable liquid crystalline formulations and especially to an ink formulation for inkjet printing comprising 10 to 50% w/w of one or more polymerizable liquid crystalline compounds and 50 to 90% w/w of one or more organic solvents selected from the group of aliphatic ketones, cyclic keto...