US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security, Bright Silicon Technologies, General Atomics on Nov. 18 for "System and method for coherent aperture of steered emitters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,568, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.), Bright Silicon Technologies Inc. (San Francisco) and General Atomics (San Diego).

"System and method for coherent aperture of steered emitters" was invented by Robert Matthew Panas (Dublin, Calif.), Robert McHenry (San Francisco), David Brent Marquand (San Diego) and Eric Peter McNaul (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coherent aperture array system is used for steering an optical source beam. The system has spaced apart, steerable emitters each able to be mechanically aimed at a remote target location to steer portions of t...