US Patent Issued to CORNING on June 2 for "Optical metasurfaces with high aspect ratio unit cells for large deflection angles" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,011, issued on June 2, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Optical metasurfaces with high aspect ratio unit cells for large deflection angles" was invented by Cameron Robert Nelson (Elmira, N.Y.) and Alexander Yutong Zhu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical metasurface includes a substrate and a plurality of nanostructures extending from a surface of the substrate and constructed of a material having an index of refraction. The plurality of nanostructures are arranged in a plurality of unit cells comprising a dimension that is less than or equal to twice an effective wavelength of light incident on...