US Patent Issued to VIAVI Solutions on Nov. 4 for "Orienting magnetic flakes within a binder layer" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,286, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to VIAVI Solutions Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Orienting magnetic flakes within a binder layer" was invented by Matthew R. Witzman (Windsor, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deposition device may deposit, on a substrate, a binder layer that includes a first set of magnetic flakes and a second set of magnetic flakes and may cause, when a temperature of the binder layer satisfies a temperature threshold (e.g., a Curie temperature of the first set of magnetic flakes), a magnetic field to be applied to the binder layer to cause the first set of magnetic flakes and the second set of magnetic flakes t...