ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,897, issued on April 15, was assigned to Orbotech Ltd. (Yavne, Israel).
"Dynamic correction for an acousto-optic deflector" was invented by Itay Peled (Jerusalem) and John Linden (Modiin, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanner may include a sampler to receive an optical beam and provide a sampled beam including a portion of the optical beam, a dispersive element to spectrally disperse the sampled beam along a dispersion direction, one or more detectors to receive at least a portion of the sampled beam dispersed along the dispersion direction, one or more acousto-optic deflectors (AODs) configured to deflect the optic...