US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on April 21 for "Fisheye lens dot projector" (Canadian, American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,867, issued on April 21, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fisheye lens dot projector" was invented by James Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Michael Miller (Ottawa), Lijun Zhu (Dublin, Calif.), Vincent V. Wong (Los Altos, Calif.), Russell Latham (Ottawa) and Benjamin Kesler (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a dot projector optic may include a collimating lens; a fisheye lens; and a dot aberration correction element disposed between the collimating lens and the fisheye lens. An input to the fisheye lens, from the dot aberration correction element, may be associated w...