US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on May 13 for "Curved display with light control film" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,539, issued on May 13, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Curved display with light control film" was invented by Tao Liu (Woodbury, Minn.), Gary T. Boyd (Woodbury, Minn.), Tri D. Pham (Woodbury, Minn.), Garth V. Antila (Hudson, Wis.) and Keith R. Jacobs (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curved display includes a display panel having a curved major surface and a light control film disposed proximate the display panel. The curved major surface is curved about a first axis, and a central portion of the curved major surface has a surface normal along a second axis substantially orthogonal to t...