ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,241, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Element Six Technologies Ltd. (Didcot, Great Britain).
"Diamond lens" was invented by Andrew Michael Bennett (Didcot, Great Britain) and Frederick Richard Faulkner (Didcot, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diamond lens (3) configured for use in a multispectral imaging system (1). The diamond lens (3) has a largest linear dimension of at least 10 mm and is formed from diamond material having a birefringence An of greater than 1x10-4, measured over a specified area of at least 4 mm by 4 mm through a maximum thickness of at least 400 micro metre. A multispectral imaging system (1) ...