ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,642, issued on May 13, was assigned to VIEW OPERATING Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Pinhole mitigation for optical devices" was invented by Robin Sean Friedman (Redwood City, Calif.), Sridhar Karthik Kailasam (Fremont, Calif.), Rao P. Mulpuri (Saratoga, Calif.), Ronald M. Parker (Olive Branch, Miss.), Ronald A. Powell (Portola Valley, Calif.), Anshu Ajit Pradhan (Collierville, Tenn.), Robert Tad Rozbicki (Saratoga, Calif.) and Vinod Khosla (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for mitigating pinhole defects in optical devices such as electrochromic windows. One method mitigates a pinhole ...