US Patent Issued to THE AEROSPACE on Nov. 3 for "Patterned dark mirror coatings for multi-functional optics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,817, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to THE AEROSPACE Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Patterned dark mirror coatings for multi-functional optics" was invented by Sean C. Stuart (Hawthorne, Calif.), Frank Pan (Los Angeles), Peter D. Fuqua (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Adam G. Vore (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patterned dark mirror coating is developed and fabricated for a custom spectrometer. By combining the photolithography process with a custom double-sided dark mirror coating integrated with a commercial infrared (IR) filter substrate, a multifunctional optical device is fabricated. The lithographic patterning of a dark ...