US Patent Issued to LIVING OPTICS on June 23 for "Optical relay system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,566, issued on June 23, was assigned to LIVING OPTICS Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Optical relay system" was invented by Robin Wang (Oxford, Great Britain), Stephen Chappell (Oxford, Great Britain), Samuel Martyn Hornett (Oxford, Great Britain) and John D Griffith (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectrally shearing optical relay system, said relay system being comprised of two halves disposed symmetrically about an aperture stop S, wherein each half comprises a plurality of rotationally symmetric optical elements forming an objective and a com-pound prism comprised of a plurality of dispersing prisms. The compound...