ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,180, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SWAVE BV (Leuven, Belgium).
"Optical device for modulating incident light" was invented by Anabel De Proft (Leuven, Belgium), Xavier Rottenberg (Kessel-Lo, Belgium) and Kristof Lodewijks (Wilsele, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided an optical device (1) for modulating incident light (L), comprising a resonance defining layer structure (110) comprising an optical state change material (112), and an electrode layer (120) comprising at least two spaced-apart electrode elements (121, 122, 123). The electrode elements are ...