ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,908, issued on July 1, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Reflective polarizer and display system" was invented by Adam D. Haag (Woodbury, Minn.), Martin E. Denker (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) and Timothy J. Nevitt (Red Wing, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display system includes a display panel including a plurality light emitting pixels and a reflective polarizer disposed on the light emitting pixels. The reflective polarizer can have a reflection band having a lower overlap with an emission spectrum of red light emitting pixels for substantially normally incident light and a higher overlap with the...