US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 4 for "Generating multiple beams of a harmonic frequency" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,397, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generating multiple beams of a harmonic frequency" was invented by Richard John Black (Cambridge, Great Britain), Rokas Drevinskas (Cambridge, Great Britain), Patrick Neil Anderson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Masaaki Sakakura (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas Torsten DR Winkler (Cambridge, Great Britain) and David Lara Saucedo (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed that relate to efficiently producing multiple laser beams of a harmonic frequency from a fundamental frequency beam. One example provides a laser system comp...