ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,663, issued on June 10, was assigned to Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH (Oberkochen, Germany).
"Optical component" was invented by Valentin Jonatan Bolsinger (Aalen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical component has a diffraction structure for diffractively influencing a direction of emergence of light of at least one wavelength incident on the optical component. The diffraction structure includes at least two diffraction substructures superimposed in at least one portion of the optical component and having first positive diffraction structures and first negative diffraction structures. A first diffraction substructure has first po...