US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Oct. 27 for "Structural colors with short-wavelength response for packaging applications" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,131, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Structural colors with short-wavelength response for packaging applications" was invented by Vinothan N. Manoharan (Cambridge, Mass.), Anna B. Stephenson (Cambridge, Mass.), Victoria Hwang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ming Xiao (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film including a polymer matrix with a first refractive index, a component with a second refractive index embedded in the polymer matrix in a disordered arrangement, wherein the second refractive index is different from the first refractive index, wherein the film s...