ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,369, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Acousto-optic system having phase-shifting reflector" was invented by James Brookhyser (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Jan Kleinert (Willsonville, Ore.) and Jered Richter (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam positioner for deflecting a beam path, along which a diffracted beam of linearly polarized laser light is propagatable, within a two-dimensional scan field, the beam positioner includes a first acousto-optic deflectors (AOD) to deflect the beam path within a first one-dimensional scan field extending along a first axis of the two-d...