ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,162, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Rodenstock GmbH (Munich).

"Method for providing a substrate with a tint and a functional coloring" was invented by Jonas Bemetz (Munich), Herbert Zinner (Rohrbach, Germany), Udo Weigand (Munich), Tobias Breu (Zwiesel, Germany), Katrin Metz (Munich), Beate Wind (Regen, Germany) and Christian Dorner (Zwiesel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for providing a substrate with a tint and a functional coloring, comprising the following steps (a) to (c) in this order: (a) providing a substrate to be provided with a tint and a functional coloring, the subst...