US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Nov. 4 for "Optical stack and housing for electronic device" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,291, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Optical stack and housing for electronic device" was invented by Fan Long (Guangzhou, China), Bharat R. Acharya (Woodbury, Minn.), Jing Fei Chen (Shanghai), Huijie Xie (Beijing), Zhe Hu (Jiangsu Province, China), Bradley L. Givot (St. Paul, Minn.), Carl A. Stover (St. Paul, Minn.), Lin Zhao (Woodbury, Minn.), Gilles J. Benoit (Minneapolis) and Robert D. Taylor (Stacy, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing (185) for an electronic device (170) includes an optical film (100) having an optical transmittance for substantially normally incident ...