US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on April 22 for "Organic solid crystals having helical structures formed using cholesteric liquid crystals" (Washington, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,222, issued on April 22, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Organic solid crystals having helical structures formed using cholesteric liquid crystals" was invented by Sheng Ye (Redmond, Wash.), Ryan Li (Redmond, Wash.), Tingling Rao (Bellevue, Wash.), Lafe Joseph Purvis II (Redmond, Wash.), Oleg Yaroshchuk (Redmond, Wash.), Tanya Malhotra (Frederick, Md.) and Andrew John Ouderkirk (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical film includes a plurality of helically arranged liquid crystals and organic solid crystal structures at least partially surrounding the plurality of helically arra...