US Patent Issued to poLight ASA on Oct. 27 for "Controllable light deflection device with reduced aberration" (French, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,163, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to poLight ASA (Tonsberg, Norway).

"Controllable light deflection device with reduced aberration" was invented by Pierre Craen (Embourg, Belgium), Alain Gillet (Galan, France) and Nicolas Tallaron (Neuville sur Saone, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a variable light deflection device comprising a prism, a reflection member arranged opposite to one of the faces of the prism for deflecting an incident refracted light ray back into the prism through said face as a deflected light ray, a refraction member arranged opposite another face of the prism for refracting the def...