US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on March 31 for "Achromatic beam deflector for light-efficient display panel" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,145, issued on March 31, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Achromatic beam deflector for light-efficient display panel" was invented by Zhimin Shi (Bellevue, Wash.), Fenglin Peng (Redmond, Wash.), Zhaocheng Liu (Redmond, Wash.) and Zhujun Shi (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes an array of light sources configured to emit light beams, and a metasurface including a plurality of nanostructures and configured to receive and deflect the light beams emitted by the array of light sources. The metasurface includes a plurality of regions. Nanostructures in different regions o...