ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,215, issued on April 1, was assigned to JIAXING UPHOTON OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Diffractive optical element for beam splitting and design method therefor, and structured light projector" was invented by Peng Chen (Zhejiang, China), Zhentao Fan (Zhejiang, China), Muyun Wang (Zhejiang, China), Lixin Wei (Zhejiang, China) and Lei Sui (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A design method for a diffractive optical element for beam splitting, comprising: S11, determining an input light field distribution and a target output light field distribution of a diffractive optical element; S12, constructin...