US Patent Issued to Ansys on March 25 for "System and method for compression of structured metasurfaces in GDSII files" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,855, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ansys Inc. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"System and method for compression of structured metasurfaces in GDSII files" was invented by Jens Niegemann (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives a layout representation of a metasurface, the metasurface including a number of scatterers arranged in a spatial order, each scatterer having one of a number of geometries. The system identifies one or more consecutive ones of the scatterers in the spatial order. The system identifies a sequence representing consecutive ones of the geometries, the sequence being associated with one o...