ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,353, issued on July 14, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optical device fabrication" was invented by Yashraj Bhatnagar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Robert T. Rozbicki (Saratoga, Calif.) and Rao Mulpuri (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transparent conductive coatings are polished using particle slurries in combination with mechanical shearing force, such as a polishing pad. Substrates having transparent conductive coatings that are too rough and/or have too much haze, such that the substrate would not produce a suitable optical device, are polished using methods described herein. The substrate may be...