ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,032, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Westboro Photonics Inc. (Ottawa).

"System, method and apparatus for wide wavelength range imaging with focus and image correction" was invented by Timothy Moggridge (Ottawa) and Paul Joseph Prior (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable focus imaging lens assembly has different, calibrated settings for each of multiple different wavelength ranges. Images are captured for each wavelength range using the different settings, corrected and stacked to form an image data cube. Using multiple wavelength ranges allows a scene or object to be imaged by multispectral imagers, hyperspectral imagers...