ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,743, issued on July 22, was assigned to UNISTELLAR (Marseilles, France).

"Method for producing a digital image, associated computer program product and optical system" was invented by Arnaud Malvache (Fuveau, France), Antonin Borot (Marseilles, France), Benjamin Lefaudeux (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Laurent Marfisi (Marseilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an optical system for restoring a natural image combined with a digital image, in order to characterise and highlight the objects represented on the natural image. The optical system includes an objective lens, an eyepiece, a semi-reflective plate, a ...