ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,792, issued on July 29, was assigned to APPLIED MATERIALS Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"High index edge blackening material" was invented by Yige Gao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rami Hourani (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xiaopei Deng (San Jose, Calif.), Amita Joshi (Fremont, Calif.), Ludovic Godet (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kangkang Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein include a waveguide combiner having an edge coated with an optically absorbent composition and a method of coating the edge of the waveguide combiner with the optically absorbent composition. The optically absorbent composition includes on...