US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on July 28 for "Processing of superhydrophilic, infrared transmissive, anti-reflective nanostructured surfaces" (Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,450, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Processing of superhydrophilic, infrared transmissive, anti-reflective nanostructured surfaces" was invented by Darryl A. Boyd (Alexandria, Va.), Jesse A. Frantz (Landover, Md.), Shyam S. Bayya (Ashburn, Va.), Lynda E. Busse (Alexandria, Va.), Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Va.), Woohong Kim (Lorton, Va.) and Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Waxhaw, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing nanostructured, hydrophilic, transmissive, anti-reflective surfaces is described. The metho...