US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, California Institute of Technology on March 17 for "Metaoptics and electronic apparatuses including the same" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,616, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Metaoptics and electronic apparatuses including the same" was invented by Junghyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Meir Grajower (Pasadena, Calif.), Harry Atwater (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Ruzan Sokhoyan (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a metaoptic configured to modulate incident light in a wavelength band, the metaoptic including a plurality of meta units respectively including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer provided on the first semicond...