US Patent Issued to VIAVI SOLUTIONS on Nov. 11 for "Article with curved patterns formed of aligned pigment flakes" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,209, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Article with curved patterns formed of aligned pigment flakes" was invented by Vladimir P. Raksha (Santa Rosa, Calif.), John Hynes (Monroe Township, N.J.), Laurence Holden (Cranbury, N.J.) and Paul G. Coombs (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a printed article, pigment flakes are magnetically aligned so as to form curved patterns in a plurality of cross-sections normal a continuous imaginary line, wherein radii of the curved patterns increase along the imaginary line from the first point to the second point. When light is incident upon...