ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,565, issued on March 25, was assigned to Brien Holden Vision Institute Ltd. (Sydney).

"Imaging system with optimized extended depth of focus" was invented by Zeev Zalevsky (Rosh HaAyin, Israel), Alex Zlotnik (Ashdod, Israel), Ido Raveh (Neve Yarak, Israel), Shai Ben-Yaish (Petach Tiqva, Israel), Ofer Limon (Kar-Saba, Israel), Oren Yehezkel (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Karen Lahav (Petach Tiqva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical processor is presented for applying optical processing to a light field passing through a predetermined imaging lens unit. The optical processor comprises a pattern in the form of spaced apart regio...