US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on May 5 for "Multistable elastic pixel (mep)-based reversibly reconfigurable metasurfaces" (Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,003, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Multistable elastic pixel (mep)-based reversibly reconfigurable metasurfaces" was invented by Nader Engheta (Berwyn, Pa.), Kathleen J Stebe (Penn Valley, Pa.), Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri (Anaheim, Calif.), Tianyi Yao (Exton, Pa.) and Jed-Joan Edziah (Newark, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are new classes of reconfigurable, multistable metasurfaces using the physics of colloids confined within nematic liquid crystals (NLCs). The colloids are physically moved from one stable location to another as defined by NLC-colloid inter...