ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,430, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Seals for optical components" was invented by Wei Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Boyi Fu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nathan K Gupta (Hillsborough, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may have optical components that each have first and second transparent layers such as first and second glass layers. The glass layers may have outer surfaces that face away from each other and inner surfaces that face towards each other. A polymer layer is formed between the inner surfaces of the glass layers. Along the periphery of each optical component, a hermetic...