US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on March 17 for "Freeform surface having a diffractive pattern and a method and system for forming a diffractive pattern on a freeform surface" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,587, issued on March 17, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Freeform surface having a diffractive pattern and a method and system for forming a diffractive pattern on a freeform surface" was invented by Thomas D. Milster (Tucson, Ariz.), Lee C. Johnson (Tucson, Ariz.) and Eduardo Bendek (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device comprising a freeform optical surface having a diffractive pattern formed thereon and a method and system for forming a diffractive pattern on a freeform optical surface are provided. The diffractive pattern can be formed wit...