ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,607, issued on March 3, was assigned to NEOS COMPANY Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Antifogging coating composition, antifogging coating film, and antifogging article" was invented by Koki Takei (Konan, Japan), Haruka Shigematsu (Konan, Japan) and Kentaro Nishii (Konan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an antifogging coating composition containing elongated colloidal silica and spheroidal colloidal silica. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an antifogging coating composition that can form an antifogging coating film that blushing does not occur even when water vapor is adhered thereto, and to ...