ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,517, issued on March 25, was assigned to NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Optical system and optical image processing method using image restoration" was invented by Chen Han Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chun San Tai (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Ting Yi Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an optical system using image restoration, including a light source, a pinhole, a testing platform, an image sensor and an image processing device. The pinhole is disposed on a light transmission path of the light source. The testing platform is disposed on the light transmission path of the light source and the pin...