US Patent Issued to IDEX HEALTH & SCIENCE on April 8 for "Illumination systems and optical devices for laser beam shaping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,703, issued on April 8, was assigned to IDEX HEALTH & SCIENCE LLC (Rohnert Park, Calif.).

"Illumination systems and optical devices for laser beam shaping" was invented by Jeffrey M. Bendick (Carlsbad, Calif.), John O'Shaughnessy (Carlsbad, Calif.) and David E. Hargis (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a laser illumination system are disclosed. In some examples, a system includes one or more lasers and a beam combiner configured to direct a combined light beam along a path. The system can include a polychroic optical assembly that receives the combined light beam and to output a first beam of the first l...