US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 11 for "Metasurface, metalens, and metalens array with controllable angular field-of-view" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,659, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Metasurface, metalens, and metalens array with controllable angular field-of-view" was invented by Weijian Yang (Redwood City, Calif.) and Junjie Hu (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metalens and a metalens array having a bounded angular field of view are disclosed. The metalens includes a substrate and a two-dimensional (2D) grid over the substrate to divide the substrate into a 2D array of meta-units. Each meta-unit in the 2D array includes a nanostructure and a portion of the substrate that supports the nanostructu...