ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,132, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEKONIX Co. LTD. (Dongducheon-si, South Korea).

"Optical film for controlling optical path, and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Chan Hee Lee (Asan-si, South Korea), Jung Chul Seo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jung Hoon Lee (Yeoju-si, South Korea) and Jong Gil Kim (Buyeo-gun, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical film for controlling an optical path, includes: a base film; an optical path control pattern part, which is formed on the base film and has a first refractive index; a light absorption pattern part, which is formed on the base film and has a second refract...