US Patent Issued to TRUMPF PHOTONIC COMPONENTS on April 29 for "Diffusor lens, light source, method of fabricating a light source and method of illuminating a scene" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,084, issued on April 29, was assigned to TRUMPF PHOTONIC COMPONENTS GMBH (Ulm, Germany).

"Diffusor lens, light source, method of fabricating a light source and method of illuminating a scene" was invented by Stephan Gronenborn (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diffuser lens includes a first annular lens segment and a second annular lens segment. The first and the second lens segments are concentric. A refractive index of the first and second lens segments in a cross-section along a plane including an optical axis of the diffusor lens is described by a refractive index profile which varies in a direction perpendicular t...