ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,424, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).
"Fiber array launcher assembly" was invented by Dustin Guenther (La Mirada, Calif.), Gregory D. Goodno (Los Angeles) and James Ho (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber array launcher assembly including a hollow body having a front end and a rear end; an alignment plate having an array of holes coupled to the rear end of the body; a beam shaper having an array of lenses coupled to the front end of the body, where a separate lens is aligned with each hole in the alignment plate; and a plurality of fiber assemblies each including a ...