ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,258, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).
"Lens system for wavefront modulation" was invented by Yoav Shechtman (Haifa, Israel), Boris Ferdman (Haifa, Israel), Nadav Opatovski (Haifa, Israel), Elias Nehme (Haifa, Israel) and Reut Kedem (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An objective lens system comprises a set of lenses, arranged along a common optical axis to form a back focal plane. The objective lens system is a component in a microscope. The objective lens system also comprises an optical mask at the back focal plane, and a housing encapsulating the set of le...