US Patent Issued to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on Oct. 27 for "System and method of nanoscale optical trapping and analysis using engineered dielectric optical nano-antenna" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,586, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tenn.).

"System and method of nanoscale optical trapping and analysis using engineered dielectric optical nano-antenna" was invented by Justus C. Ndukaife (Nashville, Tenn.), Ikjun Hong (Nashville, Tenn.) and Chuchuan Hong (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanotweezer including an anapole nanoantenna having a double nanohole formed through a central region of the anapole nanoantenna, a spacer layer positioned between the anapole nanoantenna and a reflector layer, and a light source configured to illuminate the reflector layer. Upon illumination...