ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,140, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Phase compensation method for digital holography systems" was invented by Philip Gatt (Berthoud, Colo.), Christopher Michael Ryan (Erie, Colo.), Brian Krause (Erie, Colo.) and Samuel Trent Thurman (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a digital holography system. The subject system uses wide-bandwidth data, monitor beams, and signal beams to form a digital interference, yielding a reference phase and angle that can be used to compensate DH phase errors. DH systems disclosed herein can provide an ability to sens...