ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,745, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Shenzhen Metalenx Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Hybrid optical system having superlens and refraction and/or reflection lens" was invented by Chenglong Hao (Guangdong, China), Fengze Tan (Guangdong, China) and Jian Zhu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metalens and an optical system having the metalens. The metalens includes: a substrate capable of transmitting light in different wavelength bands; and a plurality of unit cells on the same surface of the substrate. The multiple unit cells are arranged in an array, the unit cells are regular hexagons and/or squares. A c...