US Patent Issued to Xerox on April 22 for "Forming optical components using selective area epitaxy" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,189, issued on April 22, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Forming optical components using selective area epitaxy" was invented by Thomas Wunderer (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mask material is deposited on a substrate or growth template. The substrate or growth template is compatible with crystalline growth of a crystalline optical material. Patterned portions of the mask material are removed to expose one or more regions of the substrate or growth template. The one or more regions have target shapes of one or more optical components. The crystalline optical material is selectively grown in the on...