US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on May 13 for "Chalcogenide hybrid organic/inorganic polymers films and coatings and the use thereof" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,472, issued on May 13, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Chalcogenide hybrid organic/inorganic polymers films and coatings and the use thereof" was invented by Dong-Chul Pyun (Tucson, Ariz.), Robert A. Norwood (Tucson, Ariz.), Abhinav Nishant (Tucson, Ariz.), Laura Anderson (Tucson, Ariz.) and Tristan Kleine (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides certain CHIP films and coatings, as well as the preparation and uses thereof. Chalcogenide hybrid organic/inorganic polymers or CHIPs may be suitable for use in antireflection coatings for u...