US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITEIT GENT on Aug. 25 for "Method for deriving a surface profile of a free-form master lens for patterning photo-alignment layers of planar optical components" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,188, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium).

"Method for deriving a surface profile of a free-form master lens for patterning photo-alignment layers of planar optical components" was invented by Kristiaan Neyts (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for deriving a surface profile of a free-form master lens for patterning one or two photo-alignment layers of a planar optical component. The method includes obtaining a desired optical function of the planar optical component; and obtaining an actual optical function of the planar optical component, the actual optical function b...