Article: Patent Filing for Fractal Metamaterial Invisibility On/Off 'Cloak-On-Command'.

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc., the pioneering innovator of fractal antenna and fractal electronics technology, today announced that it has filed for patent protection on a system for making a wideband invisibility cloak turn on and off. The invention sets a path for the realization of a practical invisibility cloak that not only makes an object disappear, but allows the cloaked object to see through the cloak, with the flick of a switch.

"Previous cloak descriptions had a fatal flaw that no one knew how to address: when you cloak you also make the object 'blind' as well," notes inventor Nathan Cohen. "Of course, you can physically remove the ...

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