US Patent Issued to nLIGHT on Oct. 21 for "Power monitoring in fiber-coupled laser systems" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,298, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to nLIGHT Inc. (Camas, Wash.).

"Power monitoring in fiber-coupled laser systems" was invented by Scott R. Karlsen (Battleground, Wash.), David R Balsley (Portland, Ore.), Nicolas Trent Meacham (Vancouver, Wash.), Austin Hagarty (Camas, Wash.) and Dahv A. V. Kliner (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments may include a power monitor to measure power of laser light propagating in a core of an optical fiber; the power monitor to generate a sensor signal using an optical sensor having a light sensitive section with no line of sight to part of the optical fiber; wherein the senso...