ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,678, issued on July 15, was assigned to IPG PHOTONICS Corp. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"High powered laser electronics" was invented by Adam Pinard (Carlisle, Mass.), Wolf Fuchs (Brimfield, Mass.), Keith Millea (Sutton, Mass.) and Oleg Shkurikhin (Oxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more current sources configured to couple to an AC to DC power converter without a DC-to-DC converter between the current sources and the power converter. Each of the current sources includes a high voltage switch and one or more independent safety shutoffs. The one or more safety shutoffs are configured to disable emission of...