US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Multilayer flat lens for ultra-high resolution phase delay and wavefront reshaping" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,678, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Multilayer flat lens for ultra-high resolution phase delay and wavefront reshaping" was invented by Yaniv Vinish (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flat optical device includes a substrate, a first nanostructure layer on the substrate, and a second nanostructure layer on the first nanostructure layer. The first nanostructure layer includes a first array of meta-elements in a first array of segments and characterized by a same first height in a first direction. The second nanostructure layer includes a second array of...