ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,265, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to RAFAEL ADVANCED DEFENSE SYSTEMS LTD. (Haifa, Israel).
"System and method for alignment of beams of coherent beam array" was invented by Daniel Golubchik (Kiryat Bialik, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CBC system includes an array of beam sources generating coherent beams directed towards a target. The beam sources have associated adjustable phase modulators and beam steering arrangements. For each of the beams in a subset of the beams, the corresponding beam steering arrangement is actuated to steer the beam, and the corresponding phase modulator is actuated to modulate a current phase of...