ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,126, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Optical processing apparatus using retroreflection" was invented by Jong Moo Sohn (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Hwa Gene (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an optical processing apparatus including a light source configured to generate light, a first spatial light modulator provided on a reference plate and configured to modulate light, a first retroreflective lens provided over the first spatial light modulator and configured to perform optical Fourier transform on the light, a second ...