ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,117, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Polarizing film, method of manufacturing polarizing film, and display apparatus including polarizing film manufactured using the same" was invented by Beonghun Beon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dukjin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Woosuk Jung (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hyosung Hong (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polarizing film includes: a polarizing layer; a coating layer at one side of the polarizing layer and to absorb wavelengths in an ultraviolet ray region; and a phase retardation layer at another side of the pol...