ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,058, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Electromagnetic radiation transmissive polymer substrates" was invented by Sandhya Chandrashekhar (Cupertino, Calif.), Samuel Wei Sheng (Saratoga, Calif.), Jean-Marie Bussat (San Jose, Calif.), Yoo Hsiu Yeh (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Khozema Jafferji (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes electromagnetic radiation (EMR) transmissive polymer substrates and techniques for producing EMR transmissive polymer substrates by pre-treating polymer substrates with at least one lipid. In aspects, the EMR transmissive polymer substrates a...