ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,866, issued on July 1, was assigned to Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colo.).

"Systems and methods of single-shot spatial frequency modulation imaging" was invented by John Czerski (Denver), Daniel Adams (Westminster, Colo.) and Jeff Squier (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of imaging are described. An imaging system includes a light source configured to projecting a beam of light; a first diffraction grating configured to separating wavelengths of the projected beam of light; a first lens configured to focusing the wavelengths of the projected beam of light projecting from separated by the first dif...