US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on June 24 for "Systems and methods for diffraction line imaging" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,465, issued on June 24, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for diffraction line imaging" was invented by Matthew O'Toole (Pittsburgh), Mark Sheinin (Pittsburgh) and Srinivasa Narasimhan (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel class of imaging systems that combines diffractive optics with 1D line sensing is disclosed. When light passes through a diffraction grating or prism, it disperses as a function of wavelength. This property is exploited to recover 2D and 3D positions from line images. A detailed image formation model and a learning-based algorithm for 2D position estimation a...