ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,715, issued on June 23, was assigned to DEXERIALS Corp. (Shimotsuke, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing roll mold, roll mold manufacturing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, microlens array, and roll mold" was invented by Kazuhiko Noda (Shimotsuke, Japan), Katsuhiro Doi (Shimotsuke, Japan), Kyoko Sakurai (Shimotsuke, Japan), Asahiko Nogami (Shimotsuke, Japan) and Mitsuo Arima (Shimotsuke, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a roll mold by cutting a roll, includes generating a control waveform based on a signal corresponding to a rotary position of the roll, and making a plurality of cuts on...