US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on July 8 for "Liquid crystal optical element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,108, issued on July 8, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Liquid crystal optical element" was invented by Maki Shimada (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshimi Ohta (Kanagawa, Japan), Fuminori Satou (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunta Nabetani (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masao Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal optical element includes an optical function layer and two transparent substrates. The optical function layer is sandwiched between two transparent substrates. The optical function layer contains liquid crystal molecules and a photoisomerization material. The liquid crystal optical element switche...