ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,540, issued on May 13, was assigned to LUMINAR TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Orlando, Fla.).
"Plasma dispersion effect for metasurface tuning" was invented by Aditya Jain (Minneapolis), Zoran Jandric (Minneapolis), Dan Mohr (St. Paul, Minn.), Kevin A. Gomez (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Krishnan Subramanian (Shakopee, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active metasurface that provides low-loss and high-bandwidth modulation control of light includes a number of cells arranged on a substrate. A controller dynamically alters a voltage differential supplied to the electrodes of each of the cells is adapted to alter refractive index of each of the ...