ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,299, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Orbotech Ltd. (Yavne, Israel).
"LED and laser diode combined illumination system" was invented by Tal Goichman (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Ronen Yogev (Hulda, Israel), Assaf Hacohen (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ilia Lutsker (Kfar Saba, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The combined illumination system includes a first waveguide and a second waveguide. An output end of the first waveguide is coupled to an input end of the second waveguide. An LED light source is configured to emit light from an input end of the first waveguide and through the output end of the second waveguide to illuminate a workpiece. A...