US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Aug. 11 for "Instantaneous non-diffracting light sheets" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,706, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Instantaneous non-diffracting light sheets" was invented by Jialei Tang (Orlando, Fla.), Vahid Ebrahimi (Orlando, Fla.) and Kyu Young Han (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination system may include an illumination source, a line-projection system to simultaneously illuminate a pupil plane with a static distribution of a plurality of one-dimensional (1D) coherent beams. Each of the 1D coherent beams of the plurality of 1D coherent beams may extend lengthwise along a coherent direction between boundaries...