US Patent Issued to NIL Technology on Sept. 9 for "Diffractive optical elements and methods for manufacturing diffractive optical elements" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,272, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NIL Technology ApS (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

"Diffractive optical elements and methods for manufacturing diffractive optical elements" was invented by Villads Egede Johansen (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Design techniques are described for diffractive optical elements that, at least in some instances, can permit the design of diffractive optical elements without high frequency features, or with a significantly reduced number of such features. Diffractive optical elements designed in accordance with the described techniques can, in some instances, be easier to manufacture...