US Patent Issued to Imagia on Oct. 14 for "Metalens collimators and condensers" (Nevada, Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,048, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Imagia Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Metalens collimators and condensers" was invented by Gregory Kress (Las Vegas), Abdoulaye Ndao (Brookline, Mass.) and Erik Shipton (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments, a device may include a light-emitting diode (LED) to generate optical radiation at an operational wavelength with a divergent emission profile, such as a Lambertian emission profile, relative to a planar face thereof. A metalens may be positioned to modify the divergent emission profile of the optical radiation from the LED to have a modified trans...