US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 3 for "Deformable photonic materials and related methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,998, issued on June 3, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Deformable photonic materials and related methods" was invented by Mathias Kolle (Hull, Mass.) and Benjamin Miller (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes photonic materials that reversibly change color in response to the material being stretched or otherwise mechanically deformed."

The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/545,117.

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