ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,729, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical laminate, polarizing plate, and image device display" was invented by Kazushige Nakagawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Miho Asahi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daiki Wakizaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide an optical laminate in which optically anisotropic layers exhibiting reverse wavelength dispersibility have excellent moisture-heat resistance, and the adhesiveness between a first optically anisotropic layer and a second optically anisotropic layer is excellent; and a polarizing plate and an image display devic...