US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on April 15 for "Organic solid crystals having helical structures formed using negative templates" (Washington, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,772, issued on April 15, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Organic solid crystals having helical structures formed using negative templates" was invented by Sheng Ye (Redmond, Wash.), Li Yao (Bothell, Wash.), Tingling Rao (Bellevue, Wash.), Lafe Joseph Purvis II (Redmond, Wash.), Tanya Malhotra (Frederick, Md.), Andrew John Ouderkirk (Kirkland, Wash.) and Arman Boromand (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical film includes a block copolymer film defining a plurality of helically shaped cavities and a plurality of helically shaped organic solid crystals positioned within the plura...