US Patent Issued to SICPA HOLDING on July 8 for "Magnetic assemblies and processes for producing optical effect layers comprising oriented non-spherical magnetic or magnetizable pigment particles" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,953, issued on July 8, was assigned to SICPA HOLDING SA (Prilly, Switzerland).

"Magnetic assemblies and processes for producing optical effect layers comprising oriented non-spherical magnetic or magnetizable pigment particles" was invented by Evgeny Loginov (Renens, Switzerland), Mathieu Schmid (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Claude-Alain Despland (Bussigny, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of magnetic assemblies and processes for producing optical effect layers (OELs) comprising magnetically oriented non-spherical magnetic or magnetizable pigment particles on a substrate. In particula...