US Patent Issued to Vadient Optics on Aug. 26 for "Multi-material halftoning of additively manufactured optics" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,519, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Vadient Optics LLC (Tualatin, Ore.).

"Multi-material halftoning of additively manufactured optics" was invented by George Melville Williams Jr. (Vashon, Wash.) and John Paul Harmon (Albany, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises an array of voxels of solidified material defining at least one scan path, along which an error in a variable dielectric quantity at a target voxel is distributed by successive deposition and solidifying of a selected material along the scan path, in accordance with a prescription for the device. The prescription defines the dielectric quantity over the ...