ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,408, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Anti-reflective optical structures for optical systems" was invented by Mohamed Mahmoud (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Huiyang Deng (San Jose, Calif.), Satyarth Suri (San Jose, Calif.), Jason S. Pelc (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Peter L. Chang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anti-reflective optical structures are disclosed. The anti-reflective optical structures include sub-wavelength structures in order to produce one or more index of refraction gradients within the anti-reflective optical structures. The one or more index of refraction gradients can reduce r...