ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,871, issued on May 27, was assigned to Moxtek Inc. (Orem, Utah).
"Flexible wire grid polarizer" was invented by Matthew C. George (Lindon, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire grid polarizer (WGP) can include a flexible substrate. The flexible substrate might be desirable for WGP flexibility or to aid in further processing of the WGP. Wires of the WGP can include flexible ribs to minimize or avoid defects such as cracks in the WGP. An etch stop layer in the wires can allow formation of the flexible ribs without delamination of a reflective portion of the wires. The WGP embodiments herein can have improved flexibility, stretchab...