ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,072, issued on July 15, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Pigment including an intermetallic compound" was invented by Vladimir P. Raksha (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Cornelis Jan Delst (Fairfax, Calif.) and Paul Thomas Kohlmann (Windsor, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pigment, including a magnetizable reflector layer including an intermetallic compound, wherein the intermetallic compound is a crystal structure of at least two different elemental metals chemically bonded together is disclosed. A pigment, including a semi-transparent absorber layer including an intermetallic compound, wherein the intermetallic...