US Patent Issued to University of Southampton on Feb. 17 for "Method for fabricating nanostructured optical elements" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,604, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to University of Southampton (Southhampton, Great Britain).

"Method for fabricating nanostructured optical elements" was invented by Peter Kazansky (Southampton, Great Britain), Masaaki Sakakura (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Lei Wang (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating an optical element comprises: providing a substrate of a transparent material; applying a plurality of circularly polarised focused femtosecond laser pulses to a volume within the substrate to create substantially spherical nanopores in the volume; and applying at least one and not mor...