US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 7 for "Diffractive optical network for seeing through diffusive or scattering media" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,994, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Diffractive optical network for seeing through diffusive or scattering media" was invented by Aydogan Ozcan (Los Angeles), Yi Luo (Los Angeles), Ege Cetintas (Los Angeles) and Yair Rivenson (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-free system and method is disclosed that uses an all-optical image reconstruction method to see through random diffusers at the speed of light. Using deep learning, a set of transmissive layers are trained to all-optically reconstruct images of arbitrary objects that are distorted by random ph...