ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,618, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Arnold & Richter Cine Technik Gmbh & Co. Betriebs KG (Munich).
"Use of an additional optical element, a lens system and a camera system" was invented by Matthias Pesch (Munich) and Cornelius Hecker (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additional optical element with a positive optical power is used to influence an optical image produced by the camera lens on the image sensor by inserting the additional optical element between a camera lens and an image sensor of a camera, wherein the center thickness of the additional optical element and the optical power of the additional optical element ...