ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,059, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Optical construction including lens film and mask" was invented by Neeraj Sharma (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Przemyslaw P. Markowicz (Woodbury, Minn.), Timothy J. Reddy (Maplewood, Minn.), Mark A. Roehrig (Stillwater, Minn.) and Tri D. Pham (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of an optical construction and an electronic device that includes such optical construction are disclosed. The optical construction includes a lens film having an outermost structured first major surface and an opposing outermost substantially planar ...