US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on May 6 for "Optical imaging performance test system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,352, issued on May 6, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optical imaging performance test system and method" was invented by William K Ridgeway (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alan Dyke (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pengyuan Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rebecca Di Ricco Kurzava (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For testing the imaging performance of an optical system, a test target is positioned at an object plane of the optical system, and illuminated to generate an image beam. One or more images of the test target are acquired from the image beam. From the imaging data acquired, Edge Spread Functi...