US Patent Issued to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE on Nov. 4 for "Compact metalens depth sensors" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,919, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compact metalens depth sensors" was invented by Federico Capasso (Cambridge, Mass.), Todd Zickler (Cambridge, Mass.), Qi Guo (Cambridge, Mass.), Zhujun Shi (Cambridge, Mass.), Yao-Wei Huang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Emma Alexander (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a depth sensor for determining depth. The depth sensor can include a photosensor, a metalens configured to manipulate light to simultaneously produce at least two images having different focal distances on a surface of the photosensor, and processing ...