ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,042, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to IMMERVISION INC. (Montreal).
"Dual field of view optical system" was invented by Simon Thibault (Quebec City), Jocelyn Parent (Lavaltrie, Canada), Patrice Roulet (Montreal), Zhenfeng Zhuang (Montreal), Xavier Dallaire (Verdun, Canada), Xiaojun Du (Montreal) and Pierre Konen (Saint-Bruno, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for designing an optical system creating at least two optical images with different field of view on a common image plane. The optical system includes at least one common optical element receiving the rays of light from the object, at least one splitting element to...