US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on July 14 for "Systems and methods of imaging polarimetry through metasurface polarization gratings" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,877, issued on July 14, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods of imaging polarimetry through metasurface polarization gratings" was invented by Noah A. Rubin (Cambridge, Mass.), Paul Chevalier (Cambridge, Mass.) and Federico Capasso (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment for an intensity-only sensor in an imaging device includes a polarization-sensitive diffraction grating. The polarization-sensitive diffraction grating is configured to receive incident light from a scene, and to modify the incident light to simultaneously produce a plurality of non-o...