ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,524, issued on March 11, was assigned to OVD Kinegram AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Method for producing a film intermediate product, film intermediate product and method for producing a product" was invented by Marcus Arnold (Unterageri, Switzerland), Corrado Fraschina (Bonstetten, Switzerland), Philipp Schuler (Morschach, Switzerland), Rene Staub (Hagendorn, Switzerland) and Harald Walter (Horgen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a film intermediate product (1), a film intermediate product (1), as well as a product produced hereby. The film intermediate product (1) is here formed by means of depositing o...