US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on Jan. 20 for "Dynamic nanophotonic filter and method for tuning and fabricating the same" (Arizona, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,918, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Dynamic nanophotonic filter and method for tuning and fabricating the same" was invented by Jeremy Chao (Tempe, Ariz.), Liping Wang (Chandler, Ariz.) and Sydney Taylor (Charlestown, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic nanophotonic filter and method for tuning and fabricating the same is disclosed. The filter includes a transparent substrate, a first layer of thermochromic VO2 deposed on the substrate with a first thickness, a spacer layer having a spacer thickness and composed of a dielectric material...