ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,560, issued on June 23, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Metalens with corrected phase" was invented by Matthew Brand (Newton, Mass.), Dayu Zhu (Atlanta) and Keisuke Kojima (Weston, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for designing a metalens. The metalens has a metasurface including nano-structures arranged on a substrate based on preliminary simulation data. The method includes partitioning the nano-structures into overlapping d-unit supercells such that every non-perimeter nano-structure is at the center of one d-unit supercell, computing...