ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,041, issued on March 24, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Optical component with an encapsulated metasurface and method for manufacturing such a component" was invented by Thomas Perrillat-Bottonet (Grenoble, France), Sebastien Becker (Grenoble, France) and Quentin Abadie (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metasurface optical component including a first substrate, a set of subwavelength structures for forming a metasurface optic and a layer, referred to as an encapsulation layer, that is substantially parallel to the surface of the first substrate, the encapsula...