US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on May 20 for "Methods for modulating an intensity profile of a laser beam and systems for same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,089, issued on May 20, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Methods for modulating an intensity profile of a laser beam and systems for same" was invented by Matthew Bahr (San Jose, Calif.), Keegan Owsley (Campbell, Calif.) and Jizuo Zou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for modulating an intensity profile of a laser beam. Methods according to certain embodiments include irradiating an acousto-optic device with a laser to generate an output laser beam having a plurality of angularly deflected laser beams, capturing an image of the output las...