ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,040, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NIL Technology ApS (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

"Optical devices including metastructures and methods for fabricating the optical devices" was invented by Jesper Fly Hansen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Villads Egede Johansen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Maksim Zalkovskij (Copenhagen, Denmark), Brian Bilenberg (Olstykke, Denmark) and James Eilertsen (Skodsborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of manufacturing an optical device can include, in some implementations, providing a substrate having a first polymeric layer on a surface of the substrate and a second polymeric layer on the first polymeric...