ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,856, issued on May 26, was assigned to METATHERM LLC (N Miami Beach, Fla.).

"Meta material thermal shield" was invented by Gopal Prasad Mathur (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meta material anisotropic, thermal insulation shield, designed to significantly improve performance of the thermal insulation by controlling path of heat flux passing through the system. Meta material techniques to enhance the thermal performance of insulating materials using thermal cloaking and/or heat flux rotation are disclosed. Meta material thermal insulating shield is implemented using anisotropic thermal insulation system comprisi...