US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE on Dec. 30 for "Reconstruction of a wavefront of a light beam containing optical vortices" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,416, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE (Paris) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Reconstruction of a wavefront of a light beam containing optical vortices" was invented by Marc Guillon (Versailles, France) and Pascal Berto (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reconstructing the wavefront of a light beam by analyzing wavefront-gradient data of said light beam, the light beam containing at least one optical vortex, considering the contribution of the optical vortices to the wavefront. The method including providing a phase-gradient map g of the wavefront of the light beam, g...