ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,363, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Dispersion-compensated optical assembly and system" was invented by Pavel Trochtchanovitch (Redmond, Wash.), Yun-Han Lee (Redmond, Wash.), Zhisheng Yun (Sammamish, Wash.), Hyunmin Song (Redmond, Wash.), Sascha Hallstein (Saratoga, Wash.) and Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical assembly includes a first grating for redirecting a polychromatic light beam, e.g. for deviating light path of an optical system away from an optical train of some other optical sub-system. The first grating exhibits ch...