US Patent Issued to NIL Technology on Nov. 3 for "Metastructure optical elements, metastructure optical assemblies, and methods of manufacturing the same" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,605, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NIL Technology ApS (Denmark).

"Metastructure optical elements, metastructure optical assemblies, and methods of manufacturing the same" was invented by Maksim Zalkovskij (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Lars Hagedorn Frandsen (Tarnby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes apparatus including a metastructure optical element and methods for manufacturing metastructure optical elements. An example method includes providing a substrate having an optical etch-deceleration layer thereon, and a stratum over the optical etch-deceleration layer. The method further includes formi...