Patents by Inventor Karl L. Nelson

Karl L. Nelson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12248118
    Abstract: An optical metasurface film includes a flexible polymeric film having a first major surface, a patterned polymer layer having a first surface proximate to the first major surface of the flexible polymeric film and having a second nanostructured surface opposite the first surface, and a refractive index contrast layer adjacent to the nanostructured surface of the patterned polymer layer forming a nanostructured bilayer with a nanostructured interface. The nanostructured bilayer acts locally on amplitude, phase, or polarization of light, or a combination thereof and imparts a light phase shift that varies as a function of position of the nano structured bilayer on the flexible polymeric film. The light phase shift of the nanostructured bilayer defines a predetermined operative phase profile of the optical metasurface film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: 3M Innovative Properties Company, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Martin B. Wolk, Robert L. Brott, Karl K. Stensvad, James M. Nelson, Federico Capasso, Xinghui Yin, Joon-Suh Park
  • Patent number: 4112988
    Abstract: A holder formed of a strip of resilient material has a center portion provided with a longitudinal slot, and opposite end portions. The end portions are connected to the shank of a tool and the center portion passes around the end of the tool allowing the fastener to pass through the longitudinal slot and thus be releasably attached to the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Inventor: Karl L. Nelson