US Patent Issued to CORNING on Nov. 3 for "Protective coatings for aluminum mirrors and methods of forming the same" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,615, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Protective coatings for aluminum mirrors and methods of forming the same" was invented by Donald Erwin Allen (Painted Post, N.Y.), Narendra Shamkant Borgharkar (Fairport, N.Y.), Ming-Huang Huang (Ithaca, N.Y.), Hoon Kim (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Jue Wang (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to at least one feature of the present disclosure, a method of forming an optical element, includes: Depositing an aluminum layer atop a glass substrate via a physical deposition process; depositing a first fluorine containing layer atop the aluminum layer via a...