US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on July 29 for "Complex diversity for accurate phase retrieval with single shot acquisition" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,924, issued on July 29, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Complex diversity for accurate phase retrieval with single shot acquisition" was invented by Thomas D. Milster (Tucson, Ariz.) and Akira Eguchi (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new diversity concept is provided for achieving accurate phase retrieval with a single shot acquisition. Multiple irradiance data are obtained by a diffractive grating or CGH designed to generate multiple diffraction orders with different diversity values. The effective filters associated with the individual diffraction order...