ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,403, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DEXERIALS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Optical laminate, article and method of manufacturing optical laminate" was invented by Tomoaki Kobayashi (Shimotsuke, Japan), Zhen Huang (Shimotsuke, Japan), Katsutoshi Suzuki (Tochigi, Japan), Tsuguto Suzuki (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 substrate, an optical functional layer, and an antifouling layer laminated in this order, wherein the optical functional layer is a laminate in which a low refractive index layer and a high refractive index layer are alterna...