US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Sept. 15 for "Method and system with fragmented metastructures formed with a plurality of metasurface arrays" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,720, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Method and system with fragmented metastructures formed with a plurality of metasurface arrays" was invented by Kenneth Wayne Allen (Atlanta), Daniel J.P. Dykes (Atlanta), David W. Landgren (Atlanta), Christopher Peterson (Atlanta) and David R. Reid (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary method and system are disclosed comprising retroreflective metastructures formed with a plurality of metasurface arrays configured to destructively cancel or interfere, in part, with one another to reduce specular mode associated scattering or reflection. ...