ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,081, issued on March 4, was assigned to Depixus (France).
"Multichannel close-up imaging device" was invented by Thibault Vieille (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a multichannel imaging device and more specifically to a multichannel device wherein each optical channel has at least an optical low-pass angular filter configured to block any light propagating through the optical channel along a direction of propagation having an angle which is greater than a predefined angle ThetaL relative to the optical axis, the low-pass angular filter comprising at least one planar interface, separating a first ...