US Patent Issued to Teledyne FLIR Commercial Systems on March 18 for "Lens systems and methods of manufacture" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,657, issued on March 18, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR Commercial Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Lens systems and methods of manufacture" was invented by Alan D. Kathman (Charlotte, N.C.), William J. Hall (Concord, N.C.), Erika Goransson (Taby, Sweden), Todd E. Rixman (Davidson, N.C.), Bengt Jervmo (Taby, Sweden), Bo Dahllof (Taby, Sweden), Stefan Gustavsson (Taby, Sweden), Leif Sommar (Taby, Sweden), Olof Holmgren (Taby, Sweden) and Hans Ostling (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for annealing a chalcogenide lens at an elevated temperature to accelerat...