US Patent Issued to University of Southampton, Nanyang Technological University on Jan. 28 for "Method and apparatus for super-resolution optical imaging" (British, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,241, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to University of Southampton (Southampton, Great Britain) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for super-resolution optical imaging" was invented by Nikolay Ivanovich Zheludev (Southampton, Great Britain), Guanghui Yuan (Singapore), Nikitas Papasimakis (Southampton, Great Britain) and Vassily Savinov (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of imaging comprises: generating a superoscillatory field from coherent electromagnetic radiation; placing an object in the superoscillatory field; detecting one or more intensity distributions of th...