ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,623, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to K|LENS GMBH (Saarbrucken, Germany).
"Imaging system, in particular for a camera" was invented by Klaus Illgner (Starnberg, Germany) and Matthias Schmitz (Saarbrucken, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system having multiple imaging devices arranged in succession in the direction of an optical axis, including a first imaging device for generating a real intermediate image of an object on an intermediate image plane, a second imaging device for generating a virtual mirror image of the real intermediate image, the mirror image being laterally offset to the real intermediate image o...