ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,964, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Multilayer organic solid thin films having a biaxial refractive index" was invented by Tingling Rao (Bellevue, Wash.), Yuge Huang (Oviedo, Fla.), Lafe Joseph Purvis II (Redmond, Wash.), Kimberly Kay Childress (Duvall, Wash.), Arman Boromand (Issaquah, Wash.), Tanya Malhotra (Robbinsdale, Minn.), Andrew John Ouderkirk (Kirkland, Wash.), Lu Lu (Kirkland, Wash.) and Poer Sung (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer organic thin film includes a plurality of biaxially-oriented layers, where each layer is characterized by ...