US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 9 for "Product and method of manufacturing product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,588, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Product and method of manufacturing product" was invented by Takahiro Suzuki (Tokyo), Kei Oikawa (Kawasaki, Japan) and Kimitaka Arai (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product includes a first area and a second area. Each area includes areas having a first optical property and areas having a second optical property. The areas having the first optical property and the areas having the second optical property are arranged under a specific rule. In the first area, convex portions whose height is equal to or smaller than a predetermined height or no convex porti...