US Patent Issued to Illumina on April 15 for "Apparatus and methods for transmitting light" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,806, issued on April 15, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Apparatus and methods for transmitting light" was invented by Steven Boege (San Mateo, Calif.), Simon Prince (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Danilo Condello (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for transmitting light are disclosed. In an implementation, an apparatus includes a collimator at an input end positioned to receive an input beam from a fiber beam source and to produce a collimated beam. The apparatus further includes a beam shaping group having one or more optical elements and positioned to receive the collimated beam from the collimator an...