US Patent Issued to Atlas Lens on July 14 for "Focal reducer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,367, issued on July 14, was assigned to Atlas Lens Co. (Glendale, Calif.).

"Focal reducer" was invented by Dan Kanes (Glendale, Calif.), Merve Cilingir (Glendale, Calif.), Forrest Tanner Schultz (Glendale, Calif.) and Duane Scott Dewald (Glendale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A focal reducer for use with a camera and a primary lens moves the image formed by the primary lens farther back within the lens/reducer/camera assembly so that the image of an object within the field of view is formed at the image plane of the camera. Relaying the image from the image plane of the primary lens to the image plane of the camera enables t...