US Patent Issued to Transitions Optical on June 3 for "Method for preparing a coated article" (Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,862, issued on June 3, was assigned to Transitions Optical Ltd. (Tuam, Ireland).

"Method for preparing a coated article" was invented by Meng He (South Elgin, Ill.), Anil Kumar (Murrysville, Pa.), Brad S. Veldkamp (Allison Park, Pa.) and Robin Lee Evans (Denton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a coated article which includes: (a) providing a substrate; (b) applying a photo-polymerizable coating composition to at least a portion of the substrate, where the photo-polymerizable coating composition includes a photo-polymerizable anisotropic material, and a photoinitiator; (c) ordering the anisotropic material p...