US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on May 13 for "Closed-loop optical segment fusing" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,144, issued on May 13, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Closed-loop optical segment fusing" was invented by Dae Wook Kim (Tucson, Ariz.), Heejoo Choi (Tucson, Ariz.) and Marcos Esparza (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and systems are described that relate to in-situ and in-process assembly of segmented optical component with high accuracy. One example method for assembling an optical component with multiple segments includes positioning the multiple segments to an initial state conforming to an alignment or positioning requirement, measur...