ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,826, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Projector including meta-lens" was invented by Jangwoo You (Seoul, South Korea), Byunghoon Na (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seunghoon Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are projectors, each including a light source configured to emit laser light, a substrate spaced apart from the light source by a distance, a pattern mask including a pattern on a first surface of the substrate, the first surface facing the light source, and a meta-lens including a plurality of first nanostructures on a second surface of the substr...