US Patent Issued to NILT Switzerland on Sept. 8 for "Optical elements that include a metasurface" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,248, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NILT Switzerland GmbH (Horgen, Switzerland).

"Optical elements that include a metasurface" was invented by Maksim Zalkovskij (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Mark Allen Moxey (Hillerod, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an optical element that has an optical metasurface including meta-atoms. In some instances, at least some of the meta-atoms have a first height and others of the meta-atoms have a second height that differs from the first height. In some instances, each meta-atom has a cross-section composed of a first metamaterial surrounded laterally by a second different m...