US Patent Issued to CORNING on Nov. 25 for "Hardened optical windows with anti-reflective, reflective, and absorbing layers for infrared sensing systems" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,028, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Hardened optical windows with anti-reflective, reflective, and absorbing layers for infrared sensing systems" was invented by Shandon Dee Hart (Elmira, N.Y.), Karl William Koch III (Elmira, N.Y.), Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams (Painted Post, N.Y.), Charles Andrew Paulson (Painted Post, N.Y.) and James Joseph Price (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A window for a sensing system is provided. The window includes a substrate, a layered film disposed on a first surface of the substrate, the layered film including alternating layers of higher refractive index...