ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,440, issued on June 24, was assigned to ELBIT SYSTEMS ELECTRO-OPTICS-ELOP LTD. (Rehovot, Israel).
"Correction optical elements for coherent beam combining systems and systems and methods for coherent beam combining using same" was invented by Zeev Schiffer (Rehovot, Israel), Daniel Levy (Rehovot, Israel) and Ran Zvi Marom (Rehovot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A correction optical element (COE) for a multi-channeled coherent beam combining (CBC) system that uses a fiber array comprising multiple optical fibers and a single collimation array comprising multiple collimating lenses, for coherent combining of a corresponding arr...