US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, CENTER FOR ADVANCED META-MATERIALS, THE INDUSTRY & ACADEMIC COOPERATION IN CHUNGNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (IAC) on June 17 for "Mode conversion reflector" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,215, issued on June 17, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea), CENTER FOR ADVANCED META-MATERIALS (Daejeon, South Korea) and THE INDUSTRY & ACADEMIC COOPERATION IN CHUNGNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (IAC) (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Mode conversion reflector" was invented by Yoon Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Yu Bin Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Shin Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Joong Seok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a mode conversion reflector provided on an edge surface of an elastic medium, capable of mode-converting an incident ultrason...