US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on March 11 for "Metalens 3D-from-polarization camera" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,442, issued on March 11, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Metalens 3D-from-polarization camera" was invented by Matthew Brand (Newton, Mass.) and Zeyu Kuang (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera is provided for reconstructing the surface of the object. The camera includes an optical module configured to spatially separate photons reflected from an object in a scene to form at least two focused and distinctly polarized images on a sensor, wherein the sensor is configured to receive the at least two polarized images on pixels the sensor and generate intensity value...