US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, CENTER FOR ADVANCED META-MATERIALS on April 21 for "Full transmission device for wide-angle mode conversion of elastic waves" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,674, issued on April 21, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea) and CENTER FOR ADVANCED META-MATERIALS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Full transmission device for wide-angle mode conversion of elastic waves" was invented by Jeseung Lee (Anyang-si, South Korea), Gihyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Yoon Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment attempts to provide a full transmission device for wide-angle mode conversion of elastic waves which can realize mode conversion of elastic waves with high energy efficiency over a wide range of angle of incidence by a...