US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on Sept. 2 for "Direction-finding device based on coupled and detuned spoof localized surface plasmons" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,340, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Direction-finding device based on coupled and detuned spoof localized surface plasmons" was invented by Fei Gao (Hangzhou, China), Yumeng Yang (Hangzhou, China) and Hongsheng Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direction-finding device based on coupled and detuned spoof localized surface plasmons, comprising a dielectric substrate with a metal coating at the bottom and two evenly-grooved metal discs with different sizes or materials. The two grooved metal discs represent two spoof localized surface plasmonic resonators, i.e., SLSP1 and ...