ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,207, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Metalenz Inc. (Boston).

"Shared-aperture camera system and calibration method" was invented by Pawel Latawiec (Chicago), Seyedali Forouzmand (Malden, Mass.), Meng Lu (Boston), Mohammad Salary (San Francisco), Anne Janet Milliez (Cambridge, Mass.) and John W. Graff (Swampscott, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is various shared-aperture camera systems and calibration methods. One particular shared-aperture camera system includes a polarization imaging device including: an aperture; a first metasurface configured to diffract incident light going through the aperture such that a...