US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on June 3 for "High transmission light control films with asymmetric light output" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,993, issued on June 3, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"High transmission light control films with asymmetric light output" was invented by Raymond J. Kenney (Woodbury, Minn.), Owen M. Anderson (Minneapolis), Kevin W. Gotrik (Hudson, Wis.), Nicholas A. Johnson (Burnsville, Minn.), Kenneth A. P. Meyer (Eagan, Minn.), Caleb T. Nelson (Woodbury, Minn.) and Daniel J. Schmidt (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Light control films comprise a light input surface and alight output surface opposite the light input surface and alternating transmissive regions and absorptive regions disposed between t...