ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,479, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Light absorption anisotropic film, optical film, and image display device" was invented by Fumitake Mitobe (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinya Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoya Nishimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light absorption anisotropic film that, in a case of being applied to an image display device, it is possible to suppress redness of an image originating from the image display device, which is reflected on surrounding members arranged around the image display device; and an optical film and an image display device. The light absorption anisotr...