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Associated Press
3 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Metalenz Expands Its Technologies in the Metasurface Market to Include System Level Sensing Applications
BOSTON, Aug. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Metalenz, a specialist in metasurface innovation and commercialization, today announces the expansion of its product and patent portfolio, which now encompasses metasurface technology and system level applications for secure biometrics. The announcement comes after issuance of patents for single element dot pattern projectors, and face recognition with polarization. These innovations enable more compact 3D sensing and biometric solutions that simplify and enhance performance across a range of high-volume consumer and industrial markets. 3rd party teardowns by Yole group have revealed metasurfaces in smartphones and tablets made by top consumer OEMs, confirming widespread mass market adoption of this new optical technology projected to exceed $2 billion in revenue by 2029 (Yole Group, Optical Metasurfaces, 2024 Report). Metalenz holds an exclusive worldwide license to metasurface intellectual property developed in the Capasso Lab at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Combined with its own rapidly growing portfolio, Metalenz now has more than 150 patent applications and issued patents. The portfolio supports Metalenz's existing business for simplifying 3D sensing modules as well as new products like Polar ID, where the company is providing a full-stack biometric solution from the metasurface design and hardware all the way through machine learning algorithms. 'By enabling the shift of optics production into semiconductor manufacturing, the metasurface innovation developed in the Capasso Lab and commercialized by Metalenz has redefined the sensing ecosystem. Metalenz has developed a comprehensive set of know-how, patents and algorithms designed around our core technology that is further expanding our market leadership,' said Metalenz CEO and Co-founder Rob Devlin. 'We're expanding the market for metasurface optics and use cases in consumer sensing, and will continue to build on our foundational technology as we design complete solutions around our metasurface optic for secure biometrics and new applications of polarization.' About Metalenz Metalenz is investing in driving innovation in optics with metasurface technology, providing solutions that address the possibilities of mobile imaging and sensing. Metalenz is the first company to bring metasurfaces to mass markets, with over 140 million of its meta-optics already integrated in consumer devices, combining the functionality of three or four complex lenses and components into a single flat device, mass produced in existing semiconductor foundries. The company's Polar ID solution is an ultra-secure, small, and affordable face authentication product for consumer devices that harnesses the unique polarized light sorting capabilities of metasurfaces, enabling machine vision to see beyond the limits of current systems. Press Contact Carly Glovinski, Senior Marketing Manager [email protected]
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
STMicroelectronics and Metalenz Sign a New License Agreement to Accelerate Metasurface Optics Adoption
300mm metasurface optics manufactured by ST, integrating Metalenz IP T4717D STMicroelectronics and Metalenz Sign a New License Agreement to Accelerate Metasurface Optics Adoption New license agreement enabling the proliferation of metasurface optics across high-volume consumer, automotive and industrial markets: from smartphone applications like biometrics, LIDAR and camera assist, to robotics, gesture recognition, or object detection. The agreement broadens ST's capability to use Metalenz IP to produce advanced metasurface optics while leveraging ST's unique technology and manufacturing platform combining 300mm semiconductor and optics production, test and qualification. Geneva, Switzerland, and Boston, MA, USA – July 10, 2025 — STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and Metalenz, the pioneer of metasurface optics, announced a new license agreement. The agreement broadens ST's capability to use Metalenz IP to produce advanced metasurface optics while leveraging ST's unique technology and manufacturing platform combining 300mm semiconductor and optics production, test and qualification. "STMicroelectronics is the unique supplier on the market offering a groundbreaking combination of optics and semiconductor technology. Since 2022, we have shipped well over 140 million metasurface optics and FlightSense™ modules using Metalenz IP. The new license agreement with Metalenz bolsters our technology leadership in consumer, industrial and automotive segments, and will enable new opportunities from smartphone applications like biometrics, LIDAR and camera assist, to robotics, gesture recognition, or object detection,' underlined Alexandre Balmefrezol, Executive Vice President and General Manager of STMicroelectronics's Imaging Sub-Group. 'Our unique model, processing optical technology in our 300mm semiconductor fab, ensures high precision, cost-effectiveness, and scalability to meet the requests of our customers for high-volume, complex applications." 'Our agreement with STMicroelectronics has the potential to further fast-track the adoption of metasurfaces from their origins at Harvard to adoption by market leading consumer electronics companies,' said Rob Devlin, co-founder and CEO of Metalenz. 'By enabling the shift of optics production into semiconductor manufacturing, this agreement has the possibility to further redefine the sensing ecosystem. As use cases for 3D sensing continue to expand, ST's technology leadership in the market together with our IP leadership solidifies ST and Metalenz as the dominant forces in the emergent metasurface market we created.' The new license agreement aims to address the growing market opportunity for metasurface optics projected to experience significant growth to reach $2B by 2029*; largely driven by the industry's role in emerging display and imaging applications. (*Yole Group, Optical Metasurfaces, 2024 report) Note to editorsIn 2022, metasurface technology from Metalenz, which spun out of Harvard and holds the exclusive license rights to the foundational Harvard metasurface patent portfolio, debuted with ST's market leading direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) FlightSense modules. Replacing the traditional lens stacks and shifting to metasurface optics instead has improved the optical performance and temperature stability of the FlightSense modules while reducing their size and complexity. The use of 300mm wafers ensures high precision and performance in optical applications, as well as the inherent scalability and robustness advantage of semiconductor manufacturing process. About STMicroelectronicsAt ST, we are 50,000 creators and makers of semiconductor technologies mastering the semiconductor supply chain with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. An integrated device manufacturer, we work with more than 200,000 customers and thousands of partners to design and build products, solutions, and ecosystems that address their challenges and opportunities, and the need to support a more sustainable world. Our technologies enable smarter mobility, more efficient power and energy management, and the wide-scale deployment of cloud-connected autonomous things. We are on track to be carbon neutral in all direct and indirect emissions (scopes 1 and 2), product transportation, business travel, and employee commuting emissions (our scope 3 focus), and to achieve our 100% renewable electricity sourcing goal by the end of 2027. Further information can be found at About MetalenzMetalenz is at the forefront of driving innovation in optics with metasurface technology, providing solutions that redefine the possibilities of mobile imaging and sensing. Metalenz is the first company to bring metasurfaces to mass markets, with millions of its meta-optics already integrated in consumer devices, combining the functionality of three or four complex lenses and components into a single flat device, mass produced in existing semiconductor foundries. The company's first full system solution, Polar ID, is a groundbreaking, ultra-secure, small, and affordable face unlock solution for mobile that harnesses the unique polarized light sorting capabilities of metasurfaces, enabling mobile devices to see beyond the limits of current visual systems. CONTACTS STMicroelectronics INVESTOR RELATIONSJérôme Ramel EVP Corporate Development & Integrated External Communication Tel: +41.22.929.59.20 MEDIA RELATIONS Alexis BretonCorporate External Communications Tel: +33.6.59.16.79.08 Metalenz Carly GlovinskiSr. Marketing Managermedia@ Attachments 300mm metasurface optics manufactured by ST, integrating Metalenz IP July 10 2025 -- ST and Metalenz new agreement_PRESS RELEASEError in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
