US Patent Issued to MEDIA LARIO on May 6 for "Process for manufacturing an athermal low cost telescope based on high precision replication technology, and such telescope" (Italian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,562, issued on May 6, was assigned to MEDIA LARIO S.R.L. (Bosisio Parini, Italy).

"Process for manufacturing an athermal low cost telescope based on high precision replication technology, and such telescope" was invented by Robert David Banham (Suffolk, Great Britain), Giuseppe Valsecchi (Oggiono, Italy) and Fabio Marioni (Saronno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method creates a type of telescope which is athermal, lightweight, optical quality for visible and IR applications. The method includes: a) optical mirrors being made by immersing a master, that is an optical component with a curvature opposite to the mi...