US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security, University of Rochester on June 10 for "Polarization manipulation of free-space electromagnetic radiation fields" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,588, issued on June 10, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.) and University of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Polarization manipulation of free-space electromagnetic radiation fields" was invented by Jean-Michel Di Nicola (Livermore, Calif.), Alvin Erlandson (Livermore, Calif.), Joseph A. Menapace (Livermore, Calif.), Gabriel Mennerat (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) and John Arthur Marozas (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is provided to transform spatially variable arbitrary polarization states and wavefront of a high-fluence, large-aperture laser beam to prescribed spatially ...