US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on Aug. 12 for "Rayleigh-Raman polychromatic laser guide star" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,791, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Rayleigh-Raman polychromatic laser guide star" was invented by Michael Hart (Tucson, Ariz.) and Lennon Reinhart (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and systems are described that enable improved determination of wavefront errors associated with light traveling through turbulent media, such as through the atmosphere. The described systems use a Rayleigh-Raman polychromatic laser guide star (RRPLGS) to measure the tilt at the wavelength of observation by making use of the dispersion of the...