US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Sept. 30 for "Methods and apparatuses for wavefront reconstruction" (District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,452, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and apparatuses for wavefront reconstruction" was invented by Abbie Watnik (Washington), Dennis Gardner (Washington) and Theodore DuBose (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for correcting distorted wavefronts is provided. A wavefront sensor, or an image sensor, receives a distorted wavefront and generates intensity data, x-slope data, and y-slope data corresponding to the distorted wavefront. A controller receives the intensity data, x-slope data, a...