US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on May 26 for "Electrically-reconfigurable high quality factor metasurfaces for dynamic wavefront shaping" (California, Missouri, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,743, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Electrically-reconfigurable high quality factor metasurfaces for dynamic wavefront shaping" was invented by Jennifer A. Dionne (Menlo Park, Calif.), Mark Lawrence (Saint Louis, Mo.), David Russell Barton III (Somerville, Mass.), Elissa Klopfer (Stanford, Calif.) and Sahil Dagli (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We utilize high-quality-factor (high-Q) metasurfaces patterned either in or adjacent to electro-optical or thermo-optical materials such as lithium niobate, barium titanate, or thermally-sens...