ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,613, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BRIGHT SOLUTIONS S.R.L. (Cura Carpignano, Italy).

"Device for the compression of laser pulses of the order of the nanosecond and consequent generation of ultrashort pulses of the order of one hundred femtoseconds" was invented by Antoniangelo Agnesi (Cura Carpignano, Italy), Luca Carra' (Cura Carpignano, Italy), Giuliano Piccinno (Cura Carpignano, Italy) and Federico Pirzio (Cura Carpignano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for the generation of ultrashort pulses, wherein an oscillator is formed by: a first and a second non-overlapping transmission band-pass filter, which can serve a...