US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Oct. 27 for "Method for producing a diffractive optical element and diffractive optical element" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,127, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Method for producing a diffractive optical element and diffractive optical element" was invented by Ernst-Bernhard Kley (Jena, Germany), Frank Schrempel (Jena, Germany) and Uwe Detlef Zeitner (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a diffractive optical element and a diffractive optical element are disclosed. In an embodiment a method for producing a diffractive optical element includes generating a surface structure by implanting ions into a material of a substrate, a layer or a layer ...