US Patent Issued to CORNING, HARVARD COLLEGE on June 16 for "Mode multiplexer/demultiplexer using metamaterials for optical fiber communications" (Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,036, issued on June 16, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.) and HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Mode multiplexer/demultiplexer using metamaterials for optical fiber communications" was invented by Federico Capasso (Cambridge, Mass.), Wei-Ting Chen (Plainsboro, N.J.), Paulo Clovis Dainese Jr. (Painted Post, N.Y.), Kangmei Li (San Jose, Calif.), Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.), Jaewon Oh (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jun Yang (Horseheads, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and techniques for performing wavelength division multiplexing or demultiplexing using one or more metamaterials in an optical communication...