US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Oct. 20 for "Light control film and method of fabricating same" (Minnesota, California, Wisconsin, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,141, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Light control film and method of fabricating same" was invented by Li Yu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Garth V. Antila (Hudson, Wis.), Michael R. Berrigan (Oakdale, Minn.), Andrew C. Clausen (St. Paul, Minn.), William T. Fay (Woodbury, Minn.), Timothy J. Lindquist (Woodbury, Minn.), Tri D. Pham (Woodbury, Minn.), Samuel E. Marmon (Gallatin, Tenn.), Zhaohui Yang (North Oaks, Minn.) and Steven H. Kong (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light control film includes opposing substantially planar substantially parallel first and second major su...