US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Sept. 8 for "High chroma structural color assembly for vivid color generation" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,254, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"High chroma structural color assembly for vivid color generation" was invented by Lingjie Jay Guo (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Weijie Feng (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structural color devices having high chromaticity and vivid color generation include a resonator cavity with multilayer stack having a first layer comprising a light absorbing material, a second layer comprising a low refractive index layer, and a third layer comprising a high refractive index layer. An ultrathin high refractive index layer may be disposed betwee...