ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,836, issued on July 21, was assigned to Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

"Light-field imaging based on tilt-aberration" was invented by Hugh Simons (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark) and Mario Alejandro Beltran (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, imaging system and computer program product for obtaining a transverse phase gradient of a wave field from at least a first and a second wavefield intensity map includes the steps of; capturing at a first incoherent tilt aberration the first wave field intensity map of a target at a first degree of incoherent tilt aberration, using a filter positi...