US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Sept. 16 for "Optical device with elements having outwardly-curved opposing leading edges spaced according to a duty cycle, pitch, and critical dimension" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,858, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optical device with elements having outwardly-curved opposing leading edges spaced according to a duty cycle, pitch, and critical dimension" was invented by Jing Jiang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jinxin Fu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for methods of forming optical device structures having continuously increasing or decreasing duty cycles. One embodiment includes a device. The device includes a plurality of optical device structures. Each optical device structure of the plurality of optical de...