US Patent Issued to HRL Laboratories on Aug. 11 for "Reconfigurable optical device having device elements with phase change material layers and corresponding heaters connected to a circuit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,748, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HRL Laboratories LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Reconfigurable optical device having device elements with phase change material layers and corresponding heaters connected to a circuit" was invented by Jeong-Sun Moon (Moorpark, Calif.), Kyung-Ah Son (Moorpark, Calif.), Ryan G. Quarfoth (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Hanseung Lee (Newbury Park, Calif.), David H. Chow (Newbury Park, Calif.), Kevin Geary (Santa Monica, Calif.), Chuong V. Dao (Garden Grove, Calif.), Hwa Chang Seo (Torrance, Calif.) and Elias A. Flores (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable optical device comprises a plu...