US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Jan. 27 for "Optical film, optical construction, and display system" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,630, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Optical film, optical construction, and display system" was invented by Bharat R. Acharya (Woodbury, Minn.), Brett J. Sitter (Marine on St Croix, Minn.), Robert D. Taylor (Stacy, Minn.), Zhicheng Tian (Woodbury, Minn.), James P. DiZio (St. Paul, Minn.), Quinn D. Sanford (Mosinee, Wis.), Kent C. Hackbarth (River Falls, Wis.) and Matthew E. Sousa (Rosemount, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical construction includes a reflective polarizer and an optical film. The optical film includes a matrix and a plurality of first particles dispersed...