US Patent Issued to santec Holdings, Sanyo-Onoda City Public University on July 8 for "Liquid crystal device, optical system, spatial phase modulator, and method of manufacturing liquid crystal device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,067, issued on July 8, was assigned to santec Holdings Corp. (Aichi, Japan) and Sanyo-Onoda City Public University Corp. (Yamaguchi, Japan).

"Liquid crystal device, optical system, spatial phase modulator, and method of manufacturing liquid crystal device" was invented by Yasuki Sakurai (Aichi, Japan), Masashi Nishitateno (Aichi, Japan), Koki Takatou (Yamaguchi, Japan) and Masahiro Ito (Yamaguchi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a liquid crystal layer and an electrode layer. The electrode layer is configured to create an electric field in the liqui...