ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,463, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Optical apparatus including multilayered optical film structure and method and apparatus for planarizing the multilayered optical film structure" was invented by Eunhyoung Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyochul Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sunghee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeongyub Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus includes a lower optical layer; a nanostructure layer disposed on the lower optical layer and having an active region and a non-active region; and a reflective pad disposed betwe...