ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,351, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RAFAEL ADVANCED DEFENSE SYSTEMS LTD. (Haifa, Israel).
"Multiple coherent beam combination systems with reduced number of apertures" was invented by Daniel Golubchik (Kiryat Bialik, Israel) and David Shwa (Kfar Tavor, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first transceiver has a beam emitter that generates first coherent beams, and first optics that direct the first coherent beams towards a target and collect radiation reflected from the target. A second transceiver has a beam emitter that generates second coherent beams, a detector, and second optics having an aperture. The second optics dir...