US Patent Issued to Ashutosh Patri on Sept. 8 for "Method and devices for efficient manipulation of light using waveguide scatterer arrays" (Canadian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,263, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ashutosh Patri (Montreal).

"Method and devices for efficient manipulation of light using waveguide scatterer arrays" was invented by Ashutosh Patri (Outremont, Canada), Stephane Kena-Cohen (Montreal) and Christophe Caloz (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a scattering element comprising a vertically-oriented waveguide comprising one or more dielectric components configured to provide directional scattering of an incident electromagnetic wave in a pattern caused by one of interference between at least two guided components and interference between at least one guid...