US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on Jan. 27 for "Surface coating for optical emitter components" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,621, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Surface coating for optical emitter components" was invented by Richard D. Faulhaber (San Carlos, Calif.) and Martin H. Muendel (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an optical component includes an optical medium, the optical medium having a surface, wherein the surface includes one or more hydroxyl group terminations; and a surface layer chemically bonded to the optical medium, such that the surface layer has a thickness of less than 10 nanometers and is a hydrophobic surface, the surface layer including at least ...