US Patent Issued to NANJING INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMICAL OPTICS & TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES CAS on July 22 for "Thin film type image slicer device and operating system thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,760, issued on July 22, was assigned to NANJING INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMICAL OPTICS & TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES CAS (Jiangsu, China).

"Thin film type image slicer device and operating system thereof" was invented by Kai Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Yongtian Zhu (Jiangsu, China), Lei Wang (Jiangsu, China), Zhen Tang (Jiangsu, China), Hangxin Ji (Jiangsu, China), Zhongwen Hu (Jiangsu, China) and Yi Chen (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thin film type image slicer device comprises a main body prism, a flat optical element, and an optical film. A reflective cavity is formed between the optical film and a seco...