US Patent Issued to Applied Materials Israel on Aug. 19 for "Method for illuminating a substrate using multiple acousto optical devices" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,093, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Applied Materials Israel Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Method for illuminating a substrate using multiple acousto optical devices" was invented by Menachem Lapid (Hashmonaim, Israel), Roy Kaner (Rehovot, Israel), Itay Langstadter (Nir Eliyahu, Israel) and Yinnon Glickman (Maale Hahamisha, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for illuminating a substrate, the system may include an acousto-optic device (AOD); and an etendue expanding optical module. The AOD may include a surface having an illuminated region; wherein the illuminated region is configured to receive a collimated in...