ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,928, issued on April 21, was assigned to NIL Technology ApS (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).
"Metasurface coatings" was invented by Ulrich Quaade (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) and Villads Egede Johansen (Copenhagen, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing a coating (208) over a first surface (202) of a substrate (204) and over a metasurface (200) on the first surface of the substrate; and imprinting the coating to cause a surface of the coating to have a predetermined characteristic. A device includes a substrate; a metasurface on a first surface of the substrate; and a coating on the metasurface and on the first surface...