US Patent Issued to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 12 for "Optical element, and method of producing optical element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,111, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Optical element, and method of producing optical element" was invented by Ryosuke Saigusa (Kameyama, Japan), Yuichi Kawahira (Kameyama, Japan) and Akira Sakai (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an optical element that has a high diffraction efficiency and can be produced through a simple procedure, a method of producing the optical element, and a mask set for use in production of the optical element. The optical element of the present invention includes an optically anisotropic layer containing anisotropic molecules. T...