US Patent Issued to EDMUND OPTICS on Aug. 11 for "Optical element with 3D gradient refractive index" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,736, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to EDMUND OPTICS INC. (Barrington, N.J.).

"Optical element with 3D gradient refractive index" was invented by Lars Sandstrom (Philadelphia), Gary Pajer (Yardley, Pa.) and Shawn Scarfo (Pittsgrove, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element includes a traditional element having a single refractive index to transmit light from a scene from one direction; a gradient-index element attached to the traditional element and having an off-axis focus point and a refractive index that changes in a direction from a center of the gradient-index element to adjust an angle of incident light that is i...