ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,511, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Resin composition, cured product, diffractive optical element, and multilayer diffractive optical element" was invented by Naozumi Shiraiwa (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Takayasu Nagai (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan) and Naoyuki Morooka (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a resin composition suitable for producing a diffractive optical element, the resin composition including an indium tin oxide particle and a near-ultraviolet light-absorbing organic compound having a maximum value of an absorbance at 340 nm to 400 nm in an ab...