US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on March 17 for "Camera system for generating a gapless optical image" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,560, issued on March 17, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Camera system for generating a gapless optical image" was invented by Robert Bruning (Jena, Germany), Christin Gassner (Jena, Germany), Britta Satzer (Jena, Germany) and Alexander Oberdorster (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Camera system, comprising: a rectangular image sensor, a multi-aperture objective for generating an optical image and a beam deflection element arrangement including a number of beam deflection elements for deflecting incident light beams, wherein the multi-aperture objective and ...