ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,625, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Optical film, image display panel, and image display device" was invented by Jun Tsujimoto (Bizen, Japan), Gen Furui (Okayama, Japan), Yukimitsu Iwata (Okayama, Japan), Shigeki Murakami (Okayama, Japan), Takumi Yoneyama (Tsukuba, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Kuzuhara (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an optical film which has high anti-glare properties, enables a suppress of a reduction in jet-black appearance by reflected scattered light, and has favorable scratch resistance. An optical film having a surface with depressions and projectio...