US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Nov. 3 for "Geometric transformation based optical systems and methods" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,717, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Geometric transformation based optical systems and methods" was invented by Meng Cui (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes first and second optical scanners and first and second gradient-index (GRIN) lenses. The first optical scanner is configured to scan a laser beam in a first scanning path and output a first scanned beam. The first GRIN lens is configured to translate the first scanned beam therethrough. The second optical scanner is configured to scan the first scanned beam in a second scanning path ...