ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,939, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Optical devices with functional molecules" was invented by Johannes Seydel (Petaluma, Calif.), Kangning Liang (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Jaroslaw Zieba (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Carole Thoraval (Santa Rosa, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a reflector layer; a selective light modulating layer external to the reflector layer; and functional molecules present in at least one of the selective light modulating layer, in a functional layer external to a surface of the selective light modulating layer, in the selective light modulatin...