US Patent Issued to Thorlabs on Sept. 30 for "Method for producing anti-reflective textured surface using additive thin film" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,631, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Thorlabs Inc. (Newtown, N.J.).

"Method for producing anti-reflective textured surface using additive thin film" was invented by Longfei Ye (Columbia, S.C.), Ryan Joseph Priore (Wexford, Pa.), Bill Donovan (Montclair, N.J.) and Alex Cable (Newton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of producing an anti-reflective surface, instead of etching subwavelength structures directly onto the substrate, a thin film layer of topcoat is deposited onto the surface of the substrate, and the anti-reflective surface is created by etching the structures into the topcoat. Because the thin film can ...