ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,788, issued on May 6, was assigned to COHERENT PHOTONICS LLC (Plainsboro, N.J.).
"Waveguide-based light field camera" was invented by Yakov Soskind (Plainsboro, N.J.), Michael Soskind (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Rose Soskind (Plainsboro, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plenoptic camera is described that is based on a waveguiding structure containing an array of diffractive regions. The waveguide-based plenoptic camera has reduced size and weight as compared to traditional camera approaches, as well as an expanded entrance aperture. Compared to traditional plenoptic cameras, which have microlens arrays placed in proximity to the sens...