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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Alan Kleiman-Shwarsctein, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alexander Feldman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Adar Magen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A glass optical component with embedded mask may be formed from multiple, discrete glass member components using a non-adhesive bonding process. A black mask may be created at a surface of a first member component using a deposition or a printing-and-sintering process. A backfill coating may then be applied to and then polished at the surface of the first member component. Next, the first member component may be bonded with a second member component, with the non-adhesive bonding process, at the surface of the first member component to form the optical component with the black mask embedded between the first and second member components. In addition, the glass optical component forming process may be implemented on a glass wafer level to make multiple glass optical components at a same time.