ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,686, issued on March 18, was assigned to LUMUS LTD. (Ness Ziona, Israel).

"Optical devices having dichroic beam combiners, optical devices for use with dichroic beam combiners, and methods of manufacture therefor" was invented by Yochay Danziger (Kfar Vradim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coated surfaces arranged in a stack assume a periodic formation having a sequence of segments including a first segment. The first segment has first, second, and third coated surfaces, and is repeated a set number of times to form the periodic formation. The stack is sliced to form a slice having two major external surfaces and adjacent sec...