US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER on June 23 for "Artificially curved optical detector, and methods and systems of making and using" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,613, issued on June 23, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Artificially curved optical detector, and methods and systems of making and using" was invented by David Henry Lippman (Rochester, N.Y.), Duncan T. Moore (Fairport, N.Y.) and Greg Richard Schmidt (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application uses an image detector to mitigate field curvature but without the need to curve the detector surface. Gradient-index (GRIN) media, which possesses spatially varying refractive index, is used as "cover piece" for planar detectors or internal images. Field curvature correction can be made at the ...