US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on Aug. 25 for "Atomic layer deposition (ALD) enhanced far-to-mid-infrared absorptive optical control coatings" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,065, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Atomic layer deposition (ALD) enhanced far-to-mid-infrared absorptive optical control coatings" was invented by Edward J. Wollack (Greenbelt, Md.) and Vivek H. Dwivedi (Greenbelt, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a far-to-mid-infrared absorptive optical coating, including: an optically opaque conductive substrate; a primer layer applied to a surface of the optically opaque conductive substrate; a conductively loaded dielectric media which coats the optically opaque conductive s...