US Patent Issued to IDEX HEALTH & SCIENCE on May 6 for "Laser systems and optical devices for laser beam shaping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,566, issued on May 6, was assigned to IDEX HEALTH & SCIENCE LLC (Rohnert Park, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a laser illumination system are disclosed. In an example, a system includes one or more lasers, a beam combiner (if multiple lasers are used) configured to direct a combined light beam along a path, a focusing optical element to receive the light beam and focus the received light towards a focus point, a MEMS mirro...