US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on Oct. 28 for "Ultra-compact multilayer metasurface imaging system integrating lenses and spaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,400, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Ultra-compact multilayer metasurface imaging system integrating lenses and spaces" was invented by Chia Wei Hsu (Los Angeles), Shiyu Li (Los Angeles) and Mahsa Torfeh (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens system having reduced physical size. The lens system includes multiple metalenses, lenses with metasurfaces, that integrate the lens and the free space and compress them into multiple layers of metasurfaces, significantly reducing the overall volume and weight of the imaging system while increasing its efficiency. The lens system a...