Patents by Inventor Rocco Fortte

Rocco Fortte has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11905450
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula I, wherein R11, R21, A11, A, Z, X11, X21, Y11, Y12, Sp11, Sp21, o and p have one of the meanings as given in claim 1. The invention further relates to method of production of a compound of formula I, to the use of said compounds in LC media and to LC media comprising one or more compounds of formula I. Further, the invention relates to a method of production of such LC media, to the use of such media in LC devices, and to LC device comprising a LC medium according to the present invention. The present invention further relates to a process for the fabrication such liquid crystal display and to the use of the liquid crystal mixtures according to the invention for the fabrication of such liquid crystal display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Lars Lietzau, Simon Siemianowski, Izumi Saito, Rocco Fortte
  • Publication number: 20230407180
    Abstract: A polymerizable compound having absorption in the long UV wavelength range, a liquid-crystal (LC) medium comprising the polymerizable compound, and the use of the compound or LC medium for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PSA (polymer sustained alignment) or SA (self-aligning) mode, an LC display of the PSA or SA mode comprising the compound or LC medium, and a process of manufacturing the LC display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Uebel, Rocco Fortte, Qiong Tong, Chia-Sheng Hsieh, I-Hua Huang, Leo Weegels
  • Publication number: 20230323207
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystal material (LC media) comprising thiophene derivatives which are stabilised by sterically hindered amines or amine derivatives (HALS, hindered amine light stabilisers), and to liquid-crystal displays (LC displays) which contain these LC materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Atsutaka MANABE, Rocco FORTTE, Harald HIRSCHMANN
  • Patent number: 11760935
    Abstract: Polymerizable compounds, processes and intermediates for their preparation, compositions containing them, polymers made from the compounds or compositions, and uses of the polymerizable compounds, compositions and polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Kodek, Oliver Heppert, Timo Uebel, Rocco Fortte, Leo Weegels
  • Patent number: 11739266
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymerisable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to liquid-crystal (LC) media comprising them, and to the use of the polymerisable compounds and LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the polymer sustained alignment (PS, PSA) and self-aligning (SA) type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Qiong Tong, Rocco Fortte, Helmut Haensel, Edward Plummer, Timo Uebel, Oliver Heppert
  • Patent number: 11685863
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymerisable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to liquid-crystal (LC) media comprising them, and to the use of the polymerisable compounds and LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the polymer sustained alignment (PS, PSA) and self-aligning (SA) type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Helmut Haensel, Qiong Tong, Rocco Fortte, Edward Plummer, Thomas Eichhorn
  • Publication number: 20230045041
    Abstract: Polymerizable compounds, processes and intermediates for their preparation, compositions containing them, polymers made from the compounds or compositions, and uses of the polymerizable compounds, compositions and polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten KODEK, Oliver HEPPERT, Timo UEBEL, Rocco FORTTE, Leo WEEGELS
  • Publication number: 20230007940
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystal (LC) medium comprising one or more polymerisable compounds and to the use of the LC medium for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the polymer sustained alignment (PS, PSA) or self-aligning (SA) type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: MERCKP PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Helmut HAENSEL, Qiong TONG, Edward PLUMMER, Rocco FORTTE, Thomas EICHHORN
  • Publication number: 20230002678
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymerisable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to liquid-crystal (LC) media comprising them, and to the use of the polymerisable compounds and LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the polymer sustained alignment (PS, PSA) and self-aligning (SA) type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Qiong TONG, Rocco FORTTE, Helmut HAENSEL, Edward PLUMMER, Timo UEBEL, Oliver HEPPERT
  • Publication number: 20220315838
    Abstract: The invention relates to liquid-crystalline media which can be used, in particular, for electro-optical displays having active-matrix addressing based on the ECB effect and for IPS (in-plane switching) displays or FFS (fringe field switching) displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Marcus Reuter, Rocco Fortte, Detlef Pauluth, Matthias Bremer, Helmut Haensel, Harald Hirschmann
  • Patent number: 11377596
    Abstract: Liquid-crystalline media which can be used, in particular, for electro-optical displays having active-matrix addressing based on the ECB effect and for IPS (in-plane switching) displays or FFS (fringe field switching) displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Marcus Reuter, Rocco Fortte, Detlef Pauluth, Matthias Bremer, Helmut Haensel, Harald Hirschmann
  • Publication number: 20220127532
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymerisable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to liquid-crystal (LC) media comprising them, and to the use of the polymerisable compounds and LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the polymer sustained alignment (PS, PSA) and self-aligning (SA) type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Helmut HAENSEL, Qiong TONG, Rocco FORTTE, Edward PLUMMER, Thomas EICHHORN
  • Patent number: 11274254
    Abstract: Liquid-crystalline media (LC media) comprising self-aligning mesogens (self-alignment additives) which effect homeotropic (vertical) alignment of the LC media at a surface or the cell walls of a liquid-crystal display (LC display). The self-alignment additives contain five-ring systems. LC displays having homeotropic alignment of the liquid-crystalline medium (LC medium) without conventional alignment layers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Edward Plummer, Rocco Fortte, Helmut Haensel, Timo Uebel, Tamara Lehmann
  • Patent number: 11264575
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1), (17) 18) or (20) and to the use thereof in electronic devices, and to electronic devices which contain these compounds. The invention furthermore relates to the preparation of the compounds of the formula (1), (17) 18) or (20) and to formulations contains one or more compounds of the formula (1), (17) 18) or (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Constanze Brocke, Christof Pflumm, Amir Hossain Parham, Rocco Fortte
  • Patent number: 11214736
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I, liquid-crystalline media which contain at least one compound of the formula I and electro-optical displays which contain the LC mixtures, especially for the self-aligning VA, PSA, PS-VA, PVA, MVA, PM-VA, HT-VA or VA-IPS mode in which R1, R2, ring A1, Z1, Z2, Sp, P, L1, L2, r1, r2, r3, m, n, p1 and p2 have the meanings indicated above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Graziano Archetti, Elena Neumann, Rocco Fortte, Timo Uebel, Helmut Haensel, Kristin Mueller
  • Publication number: 20210284911
    Abstract: An electro-optical display element in the areas of displays for watches, pocket calculators, large display panels as used in railway stations, airports and sports arenas, displays of portable or desktop computers, navigation systems and video applications, which upon the application of a voltage to the display element achieves that the longitudinal axis of molecules in a liquid-crystalline media orients itself in such a way that the larger of the dielectric constants becomes effective, which electro-optical display element contains two plates of a capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Reiffenrath, Matthias Bremer, Rocco Fortte, Harald Hirschmann, Martin Engel
  • Publication number: 20210284912
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula I, wherein R11, R21, A11, A, Z, X11, X21, Y11, Y12, Sp11, Sp21, o and p have one of the meanings as given in claim 1. The invention further relates to method of production of a compound of formula I, to the use of said compounds in LC media and to LC media comprising one or more compounds of formula I. Further, the invention relates to a method of production of such LC media, to the use of such media in LC devices, and to LC device comprising a LC medium according to the present invention. The present invention further relates to a process for the fabrication such liquid crystal display and to the use of the liquid crystal mixtures according to the invention for the fabrication of such liquid crystal display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Lars LIETZAU, Simon SIEMIANOWSKI, Izumi SAITO, Rocco FORTTE
  • Patent number: 11072742
    Abstract: A liquid-crystalline media (LC media) containing a low-molecular-weight, non-polymer component, and a combination of self-alignment additives for vertical alignment of two or more of the specified kinds (formulae IA to IM). The combination of two or more self-alignment additives affect homeotropic (vertical) alignment of the LC media at a surface or the cell surfaces of a liquid-crystal display (LC display).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Graziano Archetti, Izumi Saito, Rocco Fortte, Edward Plummer, Dmitry Ushakov, Helmut Haensel, Melanie Klasen-Memmer
  • Patent number: 11053442
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal mixture characterised in that it comprises one or more photoreactive mesogens of formula I wherein the parameters and groups occurring are defined as indicated in claim 1, to a process for the fabrication of liquid crystal displays using these liquid crystal mixtures and to a liquid crystal display obtainable by this process. The invention further relates to new compounds of formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Kevin Adlem, Alex Davis, Joseph Sargent, Ian Charles Sage, Edward Plummer, Izumi Saito, Rocco Fortte, Helga Haas, Lars Lietzau
  • Patent number: 10975308
    Abstract: A liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula S where the parameters have the meaning defined in claim 1, and one or more compounds of the formula I and one or more compounds of the formula II or one or more compounds of the formula I and one or more compounds of the formula III or one or more compounds of the formula II and one or more compounds of the formula III or one or more compounds of the formula I and one or more compounds of the formula II and one or more compounds of the formula III: in which the parameters have the meaning indicated in claim 1, and to components comprising these media for high-frequency technology, in particular phase shifters and microwave array antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Atsutaka Manabe, Rocco Fortte, Dagmar Klass, Renate Seeger