US Patent Issued to Quality Vision International on July 7 for "Partial coherence mitigation in video measurement systems via illumination apodization" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,658, issued on July 7, was assigned to Quality Vision International Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Partial coherence mitigation in video measurement systems via illumination apodization" was invented by Daniel James Lawler Williams (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video measurement system for measuring a test object comprising an imaging system having an imager having an imaging pupil, the imager arranged for viewing at least a portion of a silhouette of a test object by receiving light transmitted by the test object over a first angular extent, an illumination system having an optical axis and emitting an illumination dist...