US Patent Issued to MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN on Nov. 4 for "Electrically-controlled dynamic optical component comprising a metasurface" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,277, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. (Munich).

"Electrically-controlled dynamic optical component comprising a metasurface" was invented by Jianxiong Li (Tianjin, China), Robin Kaissner (Stuttgart, Germany) and Laura Na Liu (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical component (1) comprising a planar metasurface (2) arranged on a surface of a first substrate (3) and a top layer (4) arranged in a height direction Z above the metasurface (2), wherein the metasurface (2) comprises an array (9) of scattering structures (5, 5a, 5b), wherein the array (9) is a...