ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,600, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Blue Laser Fusion Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Laser beam extraction using distributed bragg reflector (DBR) mirror systems with a piezoelectric layer" was invented by Srinivas Gandrothula (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shuji Nakamura (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, the present invention provides a laser system. The laser system has a source laser (e.g., CBC) coupled to first mirror device opposing a second mirror device and configured to generate a resonating laser beam between the first mirror and the second mirror. In an example, the system has a piezoelectric device c...