ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,214, issued on July 14, was assigned to I-Coat Co. LLC (Santa Fe, Calif.).

"Visible spectrum anti-reflective coatings with reduced reflections in ultraviolet and infrared spectral bands" was invented by Hamlet Joe Avetisian Sr. (Pico Rivera, Calif.), Timothy George Stephan (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Arman Bernardi (Glendale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lens coatings and coated lenses which offer full-spectrum protection by reducing back-side reflection of all light spanning from the ultraviolet sub-band B (UVB) to infrared (IR-A) region are provided. The full-spectrum back-side anti-reflective coatings disclosed herein ...