US Patent Issued to ALPAO on July 29 for "Adaptive optical system with improved response time, related use and method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,777, issued on July 29, was assigned to ALPAO (Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France).

"Adaptive optical system with improved response time, related use and method" was invented by Julien Gerard Ernest Charton (Lumbin, France) and Vincent Olivier Hardy (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an adaptive optical system (1) comprising: an adaptive optical device (2) comprising an optical processing surface (3) and a driving device (5) for controllably modifying the optical behaviour of said optical processing surface (3), an optical analyser (6) intended to be subjected to an input light beam (7...