ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,488, issued on May 19, was assigned to Attollo Engineering LLC (Camarillo, Calif.).
"Wide wavelength optical detection system" was invented by Jonathan Geske (Ventura, Calif.) and Timothy A. Strand (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical detection system includes a diffractive optical element (DOE) configured to receive incident light and a detector. The DOE causes incident light at a first wavelength to generate a first diffraction pattern and incident light at a second wavelength different than the first wavelength to generate a second diffraction pattern distinguishable from the first diffraction pattern, w...