US Patent Issued to Eagle Technology, University of Colorado Boulder on Feb. 4 for "Smoothing surface roughness using atomic layer deposition" (American, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,419, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Eagle Technology LLC (Melbourne, Fla.) and University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, Colo.).

"Smoothing surface roughness using atomic layer deposition" was invented by James Throckmorton (Rochester, N.Y.), Tyler Myers (Helsinki), Rebecca Borrelli (Rochester, N.Y.), Malcolm O'Sullivan (Melbourne, Fla.), Tukaram Hatwar (Penfield, N.Y.) and Steven M. George (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of producing an optical surface atop an exterior of a substrate that includes smoothing the exterior using an ALD process to sequentially deposit ALD layers to produce one or more ALD films t...