US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Nov. 25 for "Compound and liquid crystal composition" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,049, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong).

"Compound and liquid crystal composition" was invented by Valerii Vladimirovich Vashchenko (Hong Kong), Olena V. Vashchenko (Hong Kong), Abhishek Kumar Srivastava (Hong Kong), Zhibo Sun (Hong Kong), Zhengnan Yuan (Hong Kong) and Hoi Sing Kwok (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) material for the deformed helix FLC (DHFLC) electro-optical mode devices and shows optimum electro-optical properties including high tilt angle (less than38deg), and short helix pitch (greater than120 nm), and spont...