ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,000, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), INSTITUT OPTIQUE THEORIQUE APPLIQUEE (Palaiseau, France) and UNIVERSITE PARIS SACLAY (Gif-sur-Yvette, France).

"T-shaped laser pumping device" was invented by Francois Balembois (Boissy le Sec, France) and Pierre Pichon (Palaiseau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser pumping assembly includes a parallelepipedal solid laser medium having the shape of a plate in a horizontal plane (xy) and a thickness eL, the laser medium having an absorption spectral band an associated absorption coefficient Alpha; at least one light emission module...