ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,226, issued on March 17, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).
"Hyperspectral imaging apparatus and methods" was invented by Arturo Burguete Lopez (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Andrea Fratalocchi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Fedor Getman (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Maksim Makarenko (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Qizhou Wang (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hyperspectral imaging apparatus and methods in which flat optic metasurfaces encode wavelengths of light using their spatial geometry to produce a desired transmission response. The metasurfaces are inversely designed using machi...