ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,204, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Meta optical device and electronic device including the same" was invented by Junsuk Rho (Pohang-si, South Korea), Gyeongtae Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea), Yeseul Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea), Jooyeong Yun (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Inki Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meta optical device for forming structured light by modulating incident light having a preset wavelength includes a plurality of supercells each including a plurality of nanostructures having a shape dimension less than the preset wavelength, and...