ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,540, issued on June 10, was assigned to GUANGZHOU LUXVISIONS INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Guangzhou, China).
"Metalens and image sensor" was invented by Tzu-Yao Lin (Guangzhou, China) and Shih-Chieh Yen (Guangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metalens including a transparent substrate and lenses is provided. The lenses are located on the transparent substrate. Each of the lenses includes first columnar microstructures continuously arranged along a first direction and second columnar microstructures continuously arranged along a second direction. A pitch of the first columnar microstructure is different from a pitch of the s...