ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,303, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Dexerials Corp. (Tokyo).

"Laminate, method of producing laminate, method of forming optical body, and camera module-equipped device" was invented by Hiroshi Sugata (Tokyo), Hiroshi Tazawa (Tokyo) and Shunichi Kajiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminate includes a thin film structural body and retention films. A first retention film is stacked on one face of the thin film structural body and a second retention film is stacked on another face of the thin film structural body. The thin film structural body has a first fine irregularity structure at a face that is in contact with the fi...