US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on March 24 for "Geometric-phase metasurface optofluidics for dynamic on-demand flat optics and ultra-compact refractometers" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,044, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Geometric-phase metasurface optofluidics for dynamic on-demand flat optics and ultra-compact refractometers" was invented by Mark L. Brongersma (Menlo Park, Calif.), Qitong Li (Stanford, Calif.), Jorik van de Groep (Harderwijk, Netherlands) and Jung-Hwan Song (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This work relates to a geometric-phase metasurface combined with a fluidic circuit for tuning the properties of the metasurface (especially its diffraction efficiency). We consider two aspects of particula...