US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on Feb. 24 for "Visualization of sub-wavelength features" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,530, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Visualization of sub-wavelength features" was invented by Lynford L. Goddard (Champaign, Ill.), Jinlong Zhu (Wuhan, China) and Aditi Udupa (Savoy, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Objects and/or grouped emitters are anti-symmetrically excited. The anti-symmetric radiation emitted by the objects generate an interference pattern with a node in the spacing between the objects. The spacing may be sub-wavelength and/or below a resolution limit for the emitted radiation. Samples within the spacing may be detected via distortion t...