ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,507, issued on March 17, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Antiglare film" was invented by Kensaku Hirose (Tokyo) and Masaki Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antiglare film includes a substrate having a sheet-like shape, a lower hard coat layer disposed overlapping the substrate, and an upper hard coat layer disposed layered on a side of the lower hard coat layer opposite to a side of the substrate. A thickness of the lower hard coat layer is a value within a range of at least 150% or more of a thickness of the upper hard coat layer."

The patent was filed on Dec. 17, 2021, under Application No. 18/288,12...