ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,546, issued on May 13, was assigned to VIAVI Solutions Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Sensor window" was invented by Georg J. Ockenfuss (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Scott Rowlands (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Markus Bilger (Santa Rosa, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor window may include a substrate and a set of layers disposed onto the substrate. The set of layers may include a first subset of layers of a first refractive index and a second set of layers of a second refractive index different from the first refractive index. The set of layers may be associated with a threshold transmissivity in a sensing spectral range. The set of layer...