US Patent Issued to Vadient Optics on Nov. 4 for "Additive manufacture of application-specific inorganic optical elements" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,220, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Vadient Optics LLC (Tualatin, Ore.).

"Additive manufacture of application-specific inorganic optical elements" was invented by George Melville Williams Jr. (Vashon, Wash.), John Paul Harmon (Albany, Ore.) and Thomas Leonard Allen (Milwaukie, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for making an optical element comprises: (a) receiving in a printing device a plurality of liquids, each including a volatile solvent, wherein one or more of the liquids also includes a suspension of particles or a sol-gel precursor; (b) receiving in the printing device a plurality of print maps correspond...