ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,331, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optically anisotropic film, circularly polarizing plate, and display device" was invented by Shinichi Morishima (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryoji Himeno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Hirai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an optically anisotropic film having favorable black tightness when the optically anisotropic film is disposed on a display element as a circularly polarizing plate in combination with a polarizer and an obtained display device is viewed from an oblique direction; as well as a circularly polarizing plate and a display device. The optically...