US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Oct. 27 for "Reflective polarizer and display system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,161, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Reflective polarizer and display system" was invented by Adam D. Haag (Woodbury, Minn.), Martin E. Denker (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) and Timothy J. Nevitt (Red Wing, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflective polarizer is such that for substantially normally incident light and for blue, green and red wavelengths, the reflective polarizer: has a transmission spectrum including a blue transmission stop band for the incident light polarized along a first direction; reflects at least about 50% of the incident light polarized along the first dire...