ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,454, issued on July 28, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Optically transmissive element generation for variable function optical system" was invented by Thomas J. Suleski (Harrisburg, N.C.) and Shohreh Shadalou (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example is a method by a processor(s). First and second boundary thickness variations (TA, TB) of first and second boundary elements (A, B) are obtained. The A, B are configured to obtain first and second boundary conditions of a variable function optical system. First and second functional thickness variations (TF1, TF2) of fir...