ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,686, issued on July 29, was assigned to TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY Ltd. (ViseraHsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Meta optical device, optical system, and method for aberration correction" was invented by Kai-Hao Chang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Shin-Hong Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan), An-Li Kuo (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chun-Yuan Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Chi Chang (Hukou Township, Taiwan) and Chih-Ming Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meta optical device is provided. The meta optical device includes an array of meta structures. Each of the meta structures includes a plurality of stacked layers at least including a first layer with a first refr...