US Patent Issued on April 14 for "Metamaterial devices for optical absorption, dispersion and directional sensing" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,857, issued on April 14.

"Metamaterial devices for optical absorption, dispersion and directional sensing" was invented by James Andrew Leskosek (Summerland, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metamaterial devices for optical absorption, dispersion and directional sensing include optically transparent prisms made of a wide range optically transparent material, the prisms comprising a lens surface that is exposed to a source of electromagnetic radiation, with the other surfaces of the prism adjacent to a sensing device, a reflective surface and/or an optical absorption surface. Absorption devices are configured to trap and absorb ...