US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 29 for "Meta lens and optical apparatus including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,244, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Meta lens and optical apparatus including the same" was invented by Hyunsung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeonsoo Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghoon Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meta lens includes a first lens surface, and a second lens surface provided opposite to the first lens surface, wherein at least one of the first lens surface and the second lens surface is a metasurface including a plurality of nanostructures having a sub-wavelength dimension that is less than a central wavelength Lambda0 in an ...