ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,128, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Rodenstock GmbH (Munich).

"Anti-reflective coating having IR protection and mirroring at higher angles of incidence" was invented by Rudiger Scherschlicht (Unterhaching, Germany) and Stefan Radunz (Gilching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a layer system having infrared mirroring according to one aspect, comprising a substrate base comprising a substrate sheet having a substrate surface; and a plurality of low-refraction layers and a plurality of high-refraction layers, which are arranged with high-refraction and low-refraction layers alternating on the substrate...