US Patent Issued to Corning on Nov. 18 for "Atomic layer deposition derived protective coatings for calcium fluoride optical components" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,636, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Atomic layer deposition derived protective coatings for calcium fluoride optical components" was invented by Donald Erwin Allen (Painted Post, N.Y.), Gerald Philip Cox (Brockport, N.Y.), Keith John Donohue (Fairport, N.Y.), 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: "A coated optical component includes an optical component and a conformal coating. The optical component is crystalline calcium fluoride and the conformal coating is an atomic layer deposition (ALD) coating in contact with a ...