ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,393, issued on April 7, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Curable compositions for forming light scattering layers" was invented by Nicholas C. Erickson (St. Paul, Minn.), Stephen M. Menke (Eagan, Minn.) and Evan L. Schwartz (Vadnais Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information display system includes a pixelated display including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a plurality of subpixels, an inter-pixel region defined between two of the subpixels and at least one subpixel zone. Also included is an optically-scattering layer in optical communication with the pixelated display, ...