US Patent Issued to XEROX on Oct. 7 for "System and method for metamaterial array-based field-shaping" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,299, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method for metamaterial array-based field-shaping" was invented by Krishnan Thyagarajan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Christopher Somogyi (Wimberley, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feedback system that identifies characteristics of an object and utilizes the characteristics to initiate and adjust a field applied to the object is provided. The system includes an array of array phase elements made of metamaterials that allow precise shaping of the field to be applied to a particular portion of an object based on characteristics of the object, including lo...