Clark Pentico of Simi Valley, Calif., Unsig Min of Westlake Village, Calif., and Weimin Shi of Thousand Oaks, Calif., have developed a reflective illumination system for supplying an optical radiation beam along a folded path for illuminating a planar object.
The patent has been assigned to JDS Uniphase Corp., Milpitas, Calif. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, "The system includes a radiation source, and two facing parabolic