US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Feb. 10 for "Nonuniform Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor" (New Mexico Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,663, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Kirtland AFB, N.M.).

"Nonuniform Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor" was invented by Max Cubillos-Moraga (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive optics system is provided using a nonuniform Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (NSHWS) including an array of nonuniform lenslets, with an orthogonal polynomial used to determine a size and a placement for each lenslet and an array of detectors located in a focal plane of the array of nonuniform lenslets with a detector corresponding to each lenslet."

The patent...