US Patent Issued to PHOEBUS OPTOELECTRONICS on Nov. 25 for "Filters with reduced angle-of-incidence dependence" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,094, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PHOEBUS OPTOELECTRONICS LLC (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Filters with reduced angle-of-incidence dependence" was invented by David Thomas Crouse (Canton, N.Y.), Igor Bendoym (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Lori Ann Lepak (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, or a pixel of a device, for filtering of incident radiation includes an array of discrete micro-resonant elements in an encapsulated layer, the encapsulating material having a lower index of refraction than the micro-resonant elements. A highly reflective filtering structure is positioned a first distance above the encapsulated layer and/or a sec...