ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,817, issued on May 27, was assigned to DEXERIALS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Optical laminate, article, and image display apparatus" was invented by Tetsuya Ono (Shimotsuke, Japan), Daichi Nakanishi (Shimotsuke, Japan) and Yuko Kibushi (Shimotsuke, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This optical laminate includes a transparent base material, a hard coat layer, an optical function layer, and an anti-fouling layer, which are laminated in that order, in which the hard coat layer contains a filler, the hard coat layer has a thickness of 3 micro metre or more and 25 micro metre or less, and a 10-point average roughness Rz of a surface of t...