ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,818, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ron Varghese (Morganville, N.J.).
"Planarized patterned optical thin film coatings" was invented by Ron Varghese (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The use of a planarization layer between each micro patterned optical coating on an active or passive substrate to improve spectral performance of optical filter arrays that can be applied directly on an image sensor pixel array or on glass substrate which can be later aligned & bonded over an image sensor and can also be patterned into convex or concave micro-lens over the whole CFA and function as a light focusing layer is disclosed...