ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,442, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Diffractive optical element" was invented by Nitesh Gulati (Rosebery, Australia), Vincent Choo (Rosebery, Australia), Yiwei Xu (Rosebery, Australia), Glenn Wayne Baxter (Hornsby Heights, Australia) and Steven James Frisken (Vaucluse, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are embodiments of a diffractive optical element (23) such as a grism. In one embodiment, the diffractive optical element (23) includes an input surface (31) configured to receive an input optical signal (29), a diffractive surface (33) adapted to spatially disperse the...