US Patent Issued to Northrop Grumman Systems on April 15 for "Apparatus and method for reducing thermal blooming in an optical subsystem of a high energy laser" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,455, issued on April 15, was assigned to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Apparatus and method for reducing thermal blooming in an optical subsystem of a high energy laser" was invented by Till W. Liepmann (La Canada, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for reducing thermal blooming in an optical subsystem of a high energy laser (HEL) comprises a fluid pump that receives a first fluid containing diatomic oxygen at a first concentration and a combustion chamber that combusts the first fluid to develop a second fluid containing diatomic oxygen at a second concentration, wherein the second concentration...