US Patent Issued to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on June 24 for "Lens structure and manufacturing method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,468, issued on June 24, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Lens structure and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Ki-Hun Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sangin Bae (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a lens structure capable of increasing a light absorbance and reducing optical crosstalk by manufacturing a multilayered aperture having a form of a metal layer-dielectric layer-metal layer stacked in a vertical direction and pore patterns formed on both metal layers as an aperture of a microlens array, and a manufacturing method thereof." ...