ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,710, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to THE INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS, THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Sichuan, China).

"Ultra-wide angle broadband polarization imaging system based on metasurface, and detection apparatus" was invented by Xiangang Luo (Sichuan, China), Mingbo Pu (Sichuan, China), Ting Xie (Sichuan, China), Fei Zhang (Sichuan, China) and Xiaoliang Ma (Sichuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultra-wide angle broadband polarization imaging system based on a metasurface, and a detection apparatus, the imaging system comprising a first lens (L1) having negative optical power, a linear polarizer (P1), a...