ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,024, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).
"Compact convertible universal single pass/double pass optical system" was invented by Todd Andrew Barrick (Bosque Farms, N.M.), Ryan J. Law (Albuquerque, N.M.), Bradley Salzbrenner (Albuquerque, N.M.), Jeffrey D. Hunker (Albuquerque, N.M.), Brian McFarland (Albuquerque, N.M.), Lambert Paul Parazzoli (Lavallette, N.J.), Jonathan David Sterk (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Daniel Lynn Stick (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact convertible single pass (SP)/double pass (DP) optical system is disclosed. The ...