US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Dec. 23 for "Neural nano-optics for high-quality thin lens imaging" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,945, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Neural nano-optics for high-quality thin lens imaging" was invented by Arka Majumdar (Seattle), Shane Colburn (Seattle), James Whitehead (Seattle), Luocheng Huang (Seattle), Ethan Tseng (Seattle), Seung-Hwan Baek (Seattle) and Felix Heide (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metasurfaces and systems including metasurfaces for imaging and methods of imaging are described. In one embodiment, a method for acquiring images by an imaging system comprising a metalens includes: illuminating the metalens; acquiring light passing through the metalens as a first im...