US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 25 for "Thermally tuned optical devices containing chalcogenide thin films" (District Of Columbia, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,603, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Thermally tuned optical devices containing chalcogenide thin films" was invented by Jesse Frantz (Washington), Jason Myers (Alexandria, Va.), Vinh Q. Nguyen (Fairfax, Va.), Jasbinder Sanghera (Ashburn, Va.), Robel Bekele (Washington) and Anthony Romano Clabeau (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tunable devices and methods for fine tuning the optical responses of thin film devices post fabrication are described. This approach modifies the refractive indices of the chalcog...