US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on June 30 for "Protective display film with glass" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,041, issued on June 30, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Protective display film with glass" was invented by Joseph W. Woody V (Woodbury, Minn.), David Scott Thompson (Bayport, Minn.), Catherine A. Leatherdale (Woodbury, Minn.), Ryan M. Braun (St. Paul, Minn.), Michael A. Johnson (Stillwater, Minn.), Steven D. Solomonson (Shoreview, Minn.), John J. Stradinger (Roseville, Minn.), Lyudmila A. Pekurovsky (Bloomington, Minn.), Joseph D. Rule (Woodbury, Minn.) and Peter D. Condo (Lake Elmo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display film includes a transparent glass layer having a thickness of 250 micro...