US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on June 23 for "Birefringent coating to remove polarization dependent phase shift" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,571, issued on June 23, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Birefringent coating to remove polarization dependent phase shift" was invented by Sawyer Miller (Tucson, Ariz.), Linan Jiang (Tucson, Ariz.) and Stanley Pau (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and systems are described to eliminate or reduce unwanted polarization aberrations associated with interference filters. An example method for producing a polarization aberration compensator for a thin film interference filter includes obtaining a set of Mueller matrix values based on polarization...