ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,967, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Lumotive Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).
"Multicoated tunable optical devices" was invented by Gleb M. Akselrod (Kenmore, Wash.), Lie "Larry" Zhao (Washougal, Wash.), Erik Edward Josberger (Renton, Wash.) and Prasad Padmanabha Iyer (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a dielectric substrate layer with an array of multicoated elongated metal rails extending from the dielectric substrate parallel to one another and spaced from one another to form channels therebetween. The dimensions of the multicoated elongated metal rails and the channels therebetween may be subwaveleng...