ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,009, issued on May 5, was assigned to Dexerials Corp. (Shimotsuke, Japan).
"Optical laminate and article" was invented by Tomoaki Kobayashi (Shimotsuke, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This optical laminate contains a transparent substrate, an optical functional layer and an antifouling layer laminated in that order, wherein when a light with a wavelength of 380 nm to 780 nm from a standard light source D65 is incident upon the optical laminate at an incident angle within a range from 5deg to 50deg relative to the surface, the a* value and the b* value in the CIE-Lab color system of the reflected light are within the same quadrant...