ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,390, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Modeling thermal effects for a laser system" was invented by Harini Chimalapati (Bellevue, Wash.), Christopher Jon Johnson (Snoqualmie, Wash.) and Jingyang Xue (Sunnyvale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for modeling thermal effects within a multi-laser device. For example, systems described herein may include a plurality of laser devices that output energy streams having corresponding operating windows. One or more systems described herein may include a set o...