ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,813, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOBO Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Polyethylene terephthalate-based resin film, and polarizer, transparent conductive film, touch panel, and image display device using same" was invented by Takahisa Abe (Tsuruga, Japan), Yuka Ikeda (Otsu, Japan) and Kaoru Sawada (Otsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a polyethylene terephthalate-based resin film that has excellent processing suitability and that particularly can effectively suppress the occurrence of cleavage in the film layer of a portion cut with a knife. Another object is to provide a polarizer, a transparent conduct...