US Patent Issued to William Marsh Rice University on Oct. 27 for "Optimization of diffractive lensless cameras for imaging and computer vision applications" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,160, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to William Marsh Rice University (Houston).

"Optimization of diffractive lensless cameras for imaging and computer vision applications" was invented by Ashok Veeraraghavan (Houston), Jacob Robinson (Houston), Vivek Boominathan (Houston), Jesse Adams (Houston) and Richard Baraniuk (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for designing and optimizing a lensless imaging device includes: (a) a method for optimizing the point spread function for various imaging, computer vision and artificial intelligence tasks, (b) a method for computing the optimal phase mask that can realize the desired poin...