US Patent Issued to MLOptic on July 22 for "Liquid crystal on silicon for multiple charge-coupled device camera alignment" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,976, issued on July 22, was assigned to MLOptic Corp. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Liquid crystal on silicon for multiple charge-coupled device camera alignment" was invented by Wei Zhou (Sammamish, Wash.), Kaizhang Fan (Seattle) and Ying-Ju Chu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for verifying alignment of image sensors of a CCD camera, the method including casting a collimated light source through an LCOS controlled to be disposed in a first pattern, onto the image sensors to form a second pattern on each of the image sensors, the LCOS disposed between a collimated light source and the CCD camera, frame-differencing the f...