US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Aug. 4 for "Multilayer optical film and glass laminate including same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,214, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Multilayer optical film and glass laminate including same" was invented by Raghunath Padiyath (Woodbury, Minn.), Lin Zhao (Woodbury, Minn.), Gilles J. Benoit (Minneapolis), Matthew B. Johnson (Woodbury, Minn.) and Edward J. Kivel (Stillwater, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer optical film includes a plurality of alternating polymeric first and second layers and optically absorptive material dispersed in at least one layer of the multilayer optical film. The multilayer optical film has an average optical transmittance in a visible wa...