ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,542, issued on March 3, was assigned to Drexel University (Philadelphia), epoXtal LLC (Philadelphia) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).
"Engineered dielectric meta-materials" was invented by Zongquan Gu (Chalfont, Pa.), Jonathan E. Spanier (Bala Cynwyd, Pa.), Lane W. Martin (Moraga, Calif.), Christopher R. Elsass (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Alessia Polemi (Philadelphia) and Anoop Rama Damodaran (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a strained dielectric material comprising at least one type of component containing a domain wall variant pattern, or superdomain structu...