ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,162, issued on March 11, was assigned to Modulight Corp. (Tampere, Finland).

"Optical assembly and optical system for beam steering and homogenization" was invented by Lasse Orsila (Tampere, Finland) and Petteri Uusimaa (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical assembly including light sources emitting light beams having multiple wavelengths; fiber combiner(s) arranged to combine light beams into combined beam, light beams enter fiber combiner(s); optical homogenizer(s), combined beam having non-homogenous intensity profile received at third end and combined beam having homogeneous intensity profile exits at fourth...