US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on April 21 for "Wave front sensor based on fourier filtering" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,516, issued on April 21, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Wave front sensor based on fourier filtering" was invented by Stanley Pau (Tucson, Ariz.) and David Brady (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods with improved wave front sensing and detection capabilities are described. One example wave front sensor includes a lenslet array that receives an incoming wave front, and a mask that is positioned at a focal plane of the lenslet array to receive and filter a Fourier transformed wave front that is produced by the first lenslet array a...