ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,279, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Optical window with embedded screen" was invented by Catherine Trent (McKinney, Texas), Raquel Ovalle-Robles (McKinney, Texas) and James E. Foreman (McKinney, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of embedding a screen in a substrate includes placing the screen on the substrate, and then melting part of the substrate, so that the screen becomes embedded in the substrate. The melting may involve heating at least part of the screen to melt part of the substrate, or directly heating the part of the substrate. The screen may be a screen of electrically-condu...