ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,027, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Eagle Technology LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).
"Modular stray light mitigation" was invented by Gordon Chun Kong Wu (Melbourne, Fla.), Nicholas Piekiel (Rochester, N.Y.), John Osborn (Spencerport, N.Y.), Kenneth Patterson (Rochester, N.Y.), Brian Hart (Rochester, N.Y.) and Peter Bickford (Rochester, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stray light in a metering structure is controlled by surrounding with a rigid shield an elongated length of a strut and supporting on the rigid shield a surface finish which is highly absorptive of light. The strut is thermally decoupled from the rigid shield using a plura...