US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Nov. 25 for "Stacked multi-frequency three-dimensional metasurface" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,085, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Stacked multi-frequency three-dimensional metasurface" was invented by Shanhui Fan (Stanford, Calif.), Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Sean P. Rodrigues (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Haiwen Wang (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked three-dimensional (3D) metasurface includes a first layer with a first kernel configured to apply a first convolution on a first frequency of an incident polarized light, and a second l...