US Patent Issued to Wavefront Analysis on April 22 for "Machine vision method and system" (Arizona, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,116, issued on April 22, was assigned to Wavefront Analysis Inc. (New York).

"Machine vision method and system" was invented by Rolf Jon Gerchberg (Longmeadow, Mass.) and Thomas Dean Milster (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system for automated vision and detection. The system includes a light source configured to emit a beam into an environment and a first diffractive optical element. The beam passes through the first diffractive optical element, resulting in a plurality of beams. One or more of the plurality of beams are reflected by the environment, resulting in reflected beams. A second diffractive optical ...