US Patent Issued to Thorlabs on July 8 for "Substrate-transferred stacked optical coatings" (Austrian, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,987, issued on July 8, was assigned to Thorlabs Inc. (Newton, N.J.).

"Substrate-transferred stacked optical coatings" was invented by Garrett Cole (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Valentin Wittwer (Bannwil, Switzerland), Lukas W. Perner (Vienna), Georg Winkler (Klosterneuburg-Weidling, Austria), Aline Mayer (Zurich, Switzerland), Oliver Heckl (Vienna) and David Follman (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing hybrid optical coatings and hybrid mirror assemblies, including: a) providing a first optical coating having layers of alternating high and low refractive indices of crystalline materials on a first host...