ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,424, issued on May 20, was assigned to THE INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS, THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Chengdu, China).
"Metasurface-based imaging system, design method, and detector" was invented by Xiangang Luo (Chengdu, China), Fei Zhang (Chengdu, China), Mingbo Pu (Chengdu, China), Ting Xie (Chengdu, China) and Xiaoliang Ma (Chengdu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metasurface-based imaging system, a design method, and a detector. In an optical axis direction, the metasurface-based imaging system sequentially comprises: a quadratic-phase-based metasurface structure, consisting of a sub-wavelength unit structure a...