ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,093, issued on July 8, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Liquid crystal display having a frontside light control film" was invented by Nicholas A. Johnson (Burnsville, Minn.), Encai Hao (Woodbury, Minn.) and Matthew M. Philippi (St. Paul, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal display comprises a backlight module comprising a reflective polarizing film, a light control film and a liquid crystal panel disposed between the backlight module and the light control film. The light control film comprises a light input surface and a light output surface opposite the light input surface and alterna...