US Patent Issued on Oct. 27 for "Steerable high-gain wide-angle lens for imaging applications" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,583, issued on Oct. 27.

"Steerable high-gain wide-angle lens for imaging applications" was invented by Behzad Yektakhah (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ehsan Afshari (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a dielectric material having a first surface and a second surface with a varying thickness between the first surface and the second surface. The first surface has a substantially hyperbolic curved shape with a single vertex, and the second surface has a substantially planar shape. The combination of the substantially hyperbolic curved shape and the dielectric material is chosen to compensate for different del...