ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,775, issued on April 21, was assigned to AMS AG (Premstatten, Austria).

"Optical device with phase correction" was invented by Anderson Singulani (Graz, Austria), Mai Lijian (Singapore), Jozef Pulko (Premstatten, Austria), Gernot Fasching (Vienna), Jean-Francois Pierre Seurin (West Windsor Township, N.J.) and Chuni Ghosh (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element for introducing a predetermined phase delay into incident electromagnetic radiation. The optical element comprises a first layer and a second layer arranged in a propagation path of a portion of the electromagnetic radiation. The first layer compr...