US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Nov. 4 for "Articles including nanostructured surfaces and enclosed voids, methods of making same, and optical elements" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,939, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Articles including nanostructured surfaces and enclosed voids, methods of making same, and optical elements" was invented by Jeffrey L. Solomon (Centerville, Minn.), Christopher S. Lyons (St. Paul, Minn.), Joseph C. Spagnola (Woodbury, Minn.) and Thomas P. Klun (Lakeland, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an article including a layer having a nanostructured first surface including nanofeatures and an opposing second surface, and an inorganic layer including a major surface bonded to a portion of the nanostructured...