US Patent Issued to University of Rochester on May 5 for "Optical halogenated polymer thin film with ultra-high refractive index" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,008, issued on May 5, was assigned to University of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Optical halogenated polymer thin film with ultra-high refractive index" was invented by Wyatt Tenhaeff (Rochester, N.Y.) and Ni Huo (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high refractive index coating made by forming a solid thin layer of a polymer such as P4VP by a process such as iCVD and halogenating the solid layer to thereby form a film that has a greatly increased refractive index and other desirable optical and physical properties."

The patent was filed on July 1, 2022, under Application No. 17/856,577.

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