Patents by Inventor William Koch

William Koch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250250192
    Abstract: A colored glass article includes greater than or equal to 50 mol % and less than or equal to 70 mol % SiO2, greater than or equal to 10 mol % and less than or equal to 17.5 mol % Al2O3, greater than or equal to 3 mol % and less than or equal to 10 mol % B2O3, greater than or equal to 8.8 mol % and less than or equal to 14 mol % Li2O, greater than or equal to 1.5 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % Na2O, and greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 2 mol % Cr2O3. R2O+RO?Al2O3 is greater than or equal to 0.5 mol % and less than or equal to 6 mol %. Al2O3+MgO+ZnO is greater than or equal to 12 mol % and less than or equal to 22 mol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Karl William Koch, III, Liping Xiong Smith
  • Patent number: 12378152
    Abstract: A colored glass article includes from 40 mol % to 70 mol % SiO2; from 8 mol % to 20 mol % Al2O3; from 1 mol % to 10 mol % B2O3; from 1 mol % to 20 mol % Li2O; from 1 mol % to 15 mol % Na2O; from 0 mol % to 8 mol % MgO; from 0 mol % to 5 mol % ZnO; and from 0.0005 mol % to 1 mol % Au. MgO+ZnO is from 0.1 mol % to 6 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Jill Marie Hall, Karl William Koch, III, Jesse Kohl, Liping Xiong Smith, Nicole Taylor Wiles
  • Patent number: 12360290
    Abstract: A display article is described herein that includes: a substrate comprising a thickness and a primary surface; a textured surface region; and an antireflective coating disposed on the textured surface region. The textured surface region comprises structural features and an average texture height (Rtext) from 50 nm to 300 nm. The substrate exhibits a sparkle of less than 5%, as measured by PPD140, and a transmittance haze of less than 40%, at a 0° incident angle. The antireflective coating comprises alternating high refractive index and low refractive index layers. Each of the low index layers comprises a refractive index of less than or equal to 1.8, and each of the high index layers comprises a refractive index of greater than 1.8. The article also exhibits a first-surface average photopic specular reflectance (% R) of less than 0.3% at any incident angle from about 5° to 20° from normal at visible wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Cameron Robert Nelson, James Joseph Price, Jayantha Senawiratne, Florence Christine Monique Verrier, David Lee Weidman
  • Patent number: 12352924
    Abstract: A display article is described herein that includes: a substrate comprising a thickness and a primary surface; and the primary surface having defined thereon a diffractive surface region. The diffractive surface region comprises a plurality of structural features that comprises a plurality of different heights in a multimodal distribution. Further, the substrate exhibits a sparkle of less than 4%, as measured by pixel power deviation (PPD140) at an incident angle of 0° from normal, a distinctness of image (DOI) of less than 80% at an incident angle of 20° from normal, and a transmittance haze of less than 20% from an incident angle of 0° from normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jiangwei Feng, Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Cameron Robert Nelson, Wageesha Senaratne, William Allen Wood
  • Publication number: 20250199206
    Abstract: Described are display articles comprising a diffractive surface region formed in a major surface thereof. Within the diffractive surface region, the major surface comprises a plurality of regions disposed at a discrete distribution of heights measured relative to an imaginary base plane extending through the display article. The plurality of regions are arranged such that a specular reflectance of light incident on the first major surface within a wavelength range of interest [?min, ?max] at angles of incidence on the major surface in a range [?min, ?max] is reduced by at least a factor of 10 as compared to an untextured version of the first major surface not including the diffractive surface region. Differences between heights in the discrete distribution of heights are within 5% of integer multiples of Formula (I), where Formula (II), and Formula (III).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Karl William Koch, III, Jun Yang
  • Publication number: 20250187973
    Abstract: A method of forming a glass laminate includes providing a substrate having a core layer and at least one cladding layer; heat treating the substrate at a temperature such that the at least one cladding layer is phase-separated after the heat treating; and etch treating the substrate for at least 10 sec. A phase-separated glass laminate includes a substrate having a core layer and at least one phase-separated cladding layer, such that the glass laminate has a % transmission of at least 96%, and the at least one cladding layer comprises a grain size in a range of 10 nm to 1 ?m, or a graded glass index of greater than 5 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Venkatesh Botu, Attila Lang de Falussy, Jin Su Kim, Karl William Koch, III, Aize Li, James Patrick Trice
  • Publication number: 20250093186
    Abstract: A cover article for a sensor is described herein that includes: a substrate; and an outer layered film disposed on the substrate. The outer layered film comprises alternating high and low refractive index (RI) layers. Each of the high RI layers comprises a nitride or an oxynitride. The outer layered film can have a physical thickness from about 500 nm to 12,000 nm. The article has at least two non-overlapping wavelength bands, each band having a bandwidth from 5 nm to 200 nm and a central wavelength within a spectrum from 400 nm to 1200 nm. Further, the article exhibits, for each of the at least two non-overlapping wavelength bands, (a) an average two-surface transmittance of >70% within incident angles from 0° to 20° and (b) an average two-surface transmittance of <50% within incident angles from 200 to 90°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Dong-gun Moon, Jeonghong Oh, Wenlei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12252437
    Abstract: A method of forming a glass laminate includes providing a substrate having a core layer and at least one cladding layer; heat treating the substrate at a temperature such that the at least one cladding layer is phase-separated after the heat treating; and etch treating the substrate for at least 10 sec. A phase-separated glass laminate includes a substrate having a core layer and at least one phase-separated cladding layer, such that the glass laminate has a % transmission of at least 96%, and the at least one cladding layer comprises a grain size in a range of 10 nm to 1 ?m, or a graded glass index of greater than 5 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Venkatesh Botu, Attila Lang de Falussy, Jin Su Kim, Karl William Koch, III, Aize Li, James Patrick Trice
  • Publication number: 20250085459
    Abstract: Disclosed is a window for a sensing system comprising a substrate, a first layered film comprising alternating layers of higher and lower index materials, and a second layered film comprising alternating layers of higher and lower index materials. The window comprises a maximum hardness, measured at the first layered film and by the Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test, of at least 8 GPa. The first and second layered films are configured so that the window has favorable antireflective and transmission attributes in an infrared wavelength range of interest, while providing relatively low reflectance and transmittance in the visible spectrum to provide a dark appearance and low signal noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Rui Luo, James Joseph Price, Nicholas Michael Walker
  • Publication number: 20250044466
    Abstract: A radiation detection array including a substrate, a dielectric layer disposed over the substrate, the dielectric layer including a radiation reactive material, a semiconductor layer disposed over the dielectric layer, a set of source/drain rows formed in the semiconductor layer, a charge storage structure disposed over the semiconductor layer, and a set of gate stacks formed over the charge storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Will Flanagan, Dale Julson, William Koch, Timothy Hossain, Clayton Fullwood
  • Publication number: 20250035829
    Abstract: A coated textured glass article is described herein that comprises: a glass body comprising a first surface; a plurality of polyhedral surface features extending from the first surface; and a coating disposed on the first surface of the body and the plurality of polyhedral surface features. Each of the plurality of polyhedral surface features comprises a base on the first surface and a plurality of facets extending from the base and converging toward one another. The coating comprises a multilayer interference stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Jaymin Amin, Xinyu Cao, Ling Chen, Wanghui Chen, Jiangwei Feng, Robert Randall Hancock, Jr., Shandon Dee Hart, Yuhui Jin, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Aize Li, Lin Lin, Loretta Jane Moses, Meng Shang, Nicholas Michael Walker
  • Publication number: 20250035820
    Abstract: A substrate for a display article includes (a) a primary surface; and (b) a textured region on at least a portion of the primary surface, the textured region comprising: (i) one or more higher surfaces residing at a higher mean elevation parallel to a base-plane disposed below the textured region and extending through the substrate; (ii) one or more lower surfaces residing at a lower mean elevation parallel to the base-plane that is less than the higher mean elevation; and (iii) a high-index material disposed on each of the one or more lower surfaces residing at the lower mean elevation, the high-index material forming one or more intermediate surfaces residing at an intermediate mean elevation parallel to the base-plane that is greater than the lower mean elevation but less than the higher mean elevation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Wageesha Senaratne, William Allen Wood
  • Publication number: 20250020830
    Abstract: Described in the present disclosure are display articles with scattering regions for reducing glare and associated methods. Within the scattering region, a major surface of the display article comprises a plurality of regions comprising a discrete distribution of heights measured relative to an imaginary base plane extending through the display article and parallel to the first major surface. The discrete distribution of heights comprises at least four heights, with each height occupying a surface area percentage of the scattering region that is within 3% of 100%/n, were n is the number of heights. At least two differences between adjacent heights in the discrete distribution of heights are not equal to one another such that the display article exhibits a specular reflectance spectrum comprising two or more local minima over a wavelength range of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Shandon Dee HART, Karl William KOCH, III, Jun YANG
  • Publication number: 20250020842
    Abstract: A window for a sensing system is provided that includes: a substrate comprising an outer and an inner primary surface; an outer layered film disposed on the outer primary surface; and an inner layered film disposed on the inner primary surface. Each of the outer and inner layered films comprises alternating high index and low index layers. The outer layered film comprises a scratch resistant layer having a thickness from about 0.5 ?m to about 10 ?m, and exhibits a hardness of at least 11 GPa, as measured with a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test. The window exhibits an average transmittance of greater than 85% within ±25 nm of at least one wavelength within the infrared spectrum from 900 nm to 1600 nm and an average transmittance of less than 5% in the visible spectrum from 420 nm to 650 nm, each at an angle of incidence<15°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Alexandre Michel Mayolet, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • Patent number: 12195384
    Abstract: One or more aspects of the disclosure pertain to an article including an optical film structure disposed on an inorganic oxide substrate, which may include a strengthened or non-strengthened substrate that may be amorphous or crystalline, such that the article exhibits scratch resistance and retains the same or improved optical properties as the inorganic oxide substrate, without the optical film structure disposed thereon. In one or more embodiments, the article exhibits an average transmittance of 85% or more, over the visible spectrum (e.g., 380 nm-780 nm). Embodiments of the optical film structure include aluminum-containing oxides, aluminum-containing oxy-nitrides, aluminum-containing nitrides (e.g., AlN) and combinations thereof. The optical film structures disclosed herein also include a transparent dielectric including oxides such as silicon oxide, germanium oxide, aluminum oxide and a combination thereof. Methods of forming such articles are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Karl William Koch, III, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • Publication number: 20250012947
    Abstract: Embodiments of a color-neutral anti-reflective coating and articles including the same are described. In one or more embodiments, a substrate includes a first major surface and an anti-reflective coating disposed on the first major surface of the substrate and having a reflective surface opposite the first major surface. In one or more embodiments, a point on the reflective surface has a single-surface reflectance under a D65 illuminant with an angular color variation, ?E? that is less than 5, where ?E?=?{(a*?1?a*?2)2+(b*?1?b*?2)2}, and a*?1 and b*?1 are color values a* and b* values of the point measured from a first angle ?1, and a second angle ?2, where ?1 and ?2 are any two different viewing angles at least 5 degrees apart in a range from about 10° to about 60° relative to a normal vector of the reflective surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Karl William Koch, III, Cheng-Chung Li, Jean-Francois Oudard
  • Publication number: 20250004179
    Abstract: A window for a sensing system includes a first layered film and a second layered film. The first and second layered film each include alternating layers of lower and higher refractive index materials. The first layered film includes a scratch resistant layer such that the window exhibits a maximum nanoindentation hardness of greater than or equal to 10 GPa when indented on the first layered film. The materials and thicknesses of the layers of the first and second layered films are selected such that the window exhibits relatively high transmittance and low reflectance in two distinct wavelength ranges of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Rui Luo, James Joseph Price, Nicholas Michael Walker
  • Patent number: 12147009
    Abstract: A substrate for a display article includes (a) a primary surface; and (b) a textured region on at least a portion of the primary surface, the textured region comprising: (i) one or more higher surfaces residing at a higher mean elevation parallel to a base-plane disposed below the textured region and extending through the substrate; (ii) one or more lower surfaces residing at a lower mean elevation parallel to the base-plane that is less than the higher mean elevation; and (iii) a high-index material disposed on each of the one or more lower surfaces residing at the lower mean elevation, the high-index material forming one or more intermediate surfaces residing at an intermediate mean elevation parallel to the base-plane that is greater than the lower mean elevation but less than the higher mean elevation, the high-index material comprising an index of refraction that is greater than the index of refraction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Wageesha Senaratne, William Allen Wood
  • Patent number: 12140732
    Abstract: Embodiments of a color-neutral anti-reflective coating and articles including the same are described. In one or more embodiments, a substrate includes a first major surface and an anti-reflective coating disposed on the first major surface of the substrate and having a reflective surface opposite the first major surface. In one or more embodiments, a point on the reflective surface has a single-surface reflectance under a D65 illuminant with an angular color variation, ?E? that is less than 5, where ?E?=?{(a*?1?a*?2)2+(b*?1?b*?2)2}, and a*?1 and b*?1 are color values a* and b* values of the point measured from a first angle ?1, and a second angle ?2, where ?1 and ?2 are any two different viewing angles at least 5 degrees apart in a range from about 10° to about 60° relative to a normal vector of the reflective surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Karl William Koch, III, Cheng-Chung Li, Jean-Francois Oudard
  • Patent number: 12134581
    Abstract: A glass composition includes greater than or equal to 50 mol % and less than or equal to 70 mol % SiO2; greater than or equal to 10 mol % and less than or equal to 20 mol % Al2O3; greater than or equal to 1 mol % and less than or equal to 10 mol % B2O3; greater than or equal to 7 mol % and less than or equal to 14 mol % Li2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % Na2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 1 mol % K2O; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 7 mol % CaO; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % MgO; and greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % ZnO. R2O+R?O is less than or equal to 25 mol %, wherein R2O is the sum of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O and R?O is the sum of CaO, MgO, and ZnO. The glass composition includes at least one of NiO+Co3O4+Cr2O3+CuO is greater than or equal to 0.001 mol %, CeO2 is greater than or equal to 0.1 mol %, and TiO2 is greater than or equal to 0.1 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Karl William Koch, III, Liping Xiong Smith, Nicole Taylor Wiles