ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,996, issued on July 7, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).
"Devices and methods for performing high-harmonic diffractive lens color compensation" was invented by Thomas D. Milster (Tucson, Ariz.), Young-Sik Kim (Tucson, Ariz.) and Zichan Wang (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are provided for performing color correction of focal dispersion in high-harmonic lenses. The device comprises a multi-order diffractive engineered surface (MODE) lens comprising a MODE primary lens having height transitions in the front surface that segment it into annul...