US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sept. 30 for "Multifunctional metasurface flat optics" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,630, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Multifunctional metasurface flat optics" was invented by Juejun Hu (Newton, Mass.), Tian Gu (Acton, Mass.), Fan Yang (Cambridge, Mass.), Sensong An (Malden, Mass.) and Hung-I Lin (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Meta-optic systems are described that include multi-function metasurfaces formed from a plurality of meta-atoms. A multi-function metasurface can exhibit two or more different optical functions for two or more different states of light incident on the metasurface. Different states of light include different pol...