US Patent Issued to CORNING on June 24 for "Anti-reflective optical coatings and methods of forming the same" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,421, issued on June 24, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Anti-reflective optical coatings and methods of forming the same" was invented by Ming-Huang Huang (Ithaca, N.Y.), Hoon Kim (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Jue Wang (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to at least one feature of the present disclosure, a method of forming a film of an optical element, includes: positioning a substantially transparent lens in a reactor chamber, wherein the lens defines a curved surface; exposing the lens to a first precursor comprising one of lanthanum or gadolinium such that the first precursor is deposited on the curv...