US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Jan. 13 for "Retroreflective article including a non-reflective conformal wavelength-selective radiation absorbing coating layer, and methods of making same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,803, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Retroreflective article including a non-reflective conformal wavelength-selective radiation absorbing coating layer, and methods of making same" was invented by Daniel J. Schmidt (Woodbury, Minn.), Reema Chatterjee (Woodbury, Minn.), Kui Chen-Ho (Woodbury, Minn.) and Benjamin R. Coonce (South St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a retroreflective article. The retroreflective article includes a retroreflective layer including a number of cube corner elements that collectively form a structured surface that...