ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,362, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).
"Managing optical power in laser system" was invented by Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Maurizio Zecchini (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for managing power of a laser source in a laser-based apparatus includes switched-mode power controller circuitry. The power controller circuitry further includes a controller output configured to be coupled to reservoir capacitor of a laser source to provide a first mode of regulating charging of the reservoir capacitor between illuminations ...