US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on June 24 for "Composite cooling film and article including the same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,471, issued on June 24, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Composite cooling film and article including the same" was invented by Timothy J. Hebrink (Scandia, Minn.), Michelle M. Mok (St. Paul, Minn.), Derek J. Dehn (Maplewood, Minn.), Mary E. Johansen (Woodbury, Minn.), Lon R. Johnson (New Brighton, Minn.), Todd G. Pett (St. Paul, Minn.), Moses M. David (Woodbury, Minn.), James P. Burke (St. Paul, Minn.), Vivian W. Jones (Woodbury, Minn.) and Haiyan Zhang (Lake Elmo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite cooling film comprises an ultraviolet-reflective multilayer optical film and a reflective...