ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,300, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"OSC metasurfaces" was invented by Tanya Malhotra (Houston), Lafe Joseph Purvis II (Redmond, Wash.), Ehsan Vadiee (Bothell, Wash.), Tingling Rao (Bellevue, Wash.), Arman Boromand (Issaquah, Wash.), Renate Eva Klementine Landig (Kirkland, Wash.) and Andrew John Ouderkirk (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element includes a substrate and a metasurface located over a surface of the substrate. The metasurface may include an organic solid crystal material. A related display includes a waveguide, and a light input coupling...