Oxford University Innovation Assigned Patent

Oxford University Innovation Ltd., Oxford, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (10,068,606) developed by Bhaskaran, Harish, Hosseini, Peiman, and Rios-Ocampo, Carlos Andres, Oxford, Great Britain, for an “optical device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An optical device, such as an optical storage medium, comprises a layer of material in the solid state that has a refractive index that is switchable between at least two stable values by applied light. A reflector is spaced apart from the layer of material by a solid spacer layer transmissive to light.”

The patent application was filed on December 22, 2014 (15/107,191).