ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,348, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Metalenz Inc. (Boston).
"Transmissive metasurface lens integration" was invented by Gilbert N. Riley Jr. (Marlborough, Mass.), Robert Devlin (Stoneham, Mass.), Adam Erlich (Arlington, Mass.), Pawel Latawiec (Cambridge, Mass.) and John Graff (Swampscott, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metasurface elements, integrated systems incorporating such metasurface elements with light sources and/or detectors, and methods of the manufacture and operation of such optical arrangements and integrated systems are provided. Systems and methods for integrating transmissive metasurfaces with other semicon...