ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,479, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CAILabs (Rennes, France).

"Device for processing a light beam via a multi-plane converter with a view to forming it into a predetermined shape" was invented by Clement Jacquard (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for processing an input light beam comprising at least one optical pulse having an original duration, forms the input light beam into a predetermined shape. The device comprises an optical input; a stretching device, with a view to temporally elongating the duration of the optical pulse and thus transmitting a temporally stretched radiation; a compressing device, wi...