US Patent Issued to Electro Scientific Industries on June 10 for "Phased-array beam steering for materials processing" (Oregon, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,645, issued on June 10, was assigned to Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Phased-array beam steering for materials processing" was invented by Jan Kleinert (Beaverton, Ore.), Justin Redd (Raleigh, N.C.) and James Brookhyser (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a multi-channel beam splitter arranged and configured to split an input optical signal into a plurality of split optical signals; a plurality of phase modulators, wherein each phase modulator of the plurality of phase modulators is operative to modify a phase of a corresponding split optical signal of the plurality of split opti...