US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Feb. 24 for "Optical component and light control film including same" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,849, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Optical component and light control film including same" was invented by Kevin W. Gotrik (Hudson, Wis.), Stephen J. Etzkorn (Woodbury, Minn.), Adam T. Ringberg (St. Paul, Minn.), Owen M. Anderson (Minneapolis), Vivian W. Jones (Woodbury, Minn.), Nicholas A. Johnson (Burnsville, Minn.) and Bharat R. Acharya (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical component includes a substrate and a plurality of structures formed on a first major surface of the substrate and extending from the first major surface along a thickness direction of t...