ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,777, issued on April 21, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Transparent substrate with anti-reflective film" was invented by Katsumi Suzuki (Tokyo), Kazuya Takemoto (Tokyo) and Tamotsu Morimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-reflective film-attached transparent substrate includes a transparent substrate having two main surfaces and, on at least one of the main surfaces, a multilayer film in which at least two layers having different refractive indices are laminated. At least one silicon oxide layer among the layers in the multilayer film has a moisture permeability of 300 g/m2/day or less."

The patent was filed on De...