US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on Oct. 7 for "Inverse design of angle sensitive metasurfaces for light field imaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,716, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Inverse design of angle sensitive metasurfaces for light field imaging" was invented by Wei Wu (Los Angeles), Tse-Hsien Ou (Los Angeles), Hao Yang (Los Angeles) and Yunxiang Wang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor-based sensor to detect light angle of incidence includes a semiconductor light sensor element and a patterned spatially inhomogeneous dielectric layer disposed over the semiconductor light sensor element. Characteristically, spatial inhomogeneity of the patterned spatially inhomogeneous dielectric layer is optimi...