US Patent Issued to MERCK PATENT on Nov. 3 for "Mixed valence sol-gels for high refractive index, transparent optical coatings" (German, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,680, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Mixed valence sol-gels for high refractive index, transparent optical coatings" was invented by Alejo Lifschitz Arribio (Redmond, Wash.), Anthony Phan (Redmond, Wash.), Oliver Doll (Dietzenbach, Germany), Sophia Buhbut (Ashkelon, Israel), Andreas Berkefeld (Darmstadt, Germany), Simon Siemianowski (Rossdorf, Germany) and Manuel Hamburger (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques disclosed herein relate to sol-gel materials that include at least one metal halide precursor and at least one alcohol. After being annealed, the metal in the met...