US Patent Issued to NIL Technology on April 21 for "Seed structures for structured coatings for optical and other devices" (Swedish, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,779, issued on April 21, was assigned to NIL Technology ApS (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

"Seed structures for structured coatings for optical and other devices" was invented by Niklas Hansson (Askim, Sweden) and Ulrich Quaade (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing a coating over a surface of a substrate, a plurality of seed structures being disposed on the surface of the substrate, in which respective heights of the seed structures define local thicknesses of the coating. An optical device includes a substrate, a plurality of seed structures on a surface of the substrate, and a coating on the se...