ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,119, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Nanohmics Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Integral field spectral imager" was invented by Chris W. Mann (Austin, Texas), Kieran Lerch (Hood River, Ore.), Alexander P. Greis (Austin, Texas) and Austin Ferrie (Happy Valley, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integral field spectral imager has a plurality of optical homogenizers. Each optical homogenizer is in-register with a corresponding different superpixel in a superpixel array and is configured to spatially homogenize incident EMR and to pass the spatially homogenized EMR to a spectral filter in an array of spectral filters, thence to the in-registe...