US Patent Issued to Raytheon on July 15 for "Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) micro-mirror array (MMA) steered high-power laser transmitter" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,358, issued on July 15, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) micro-mirror array (MMA) steered high-power laser transmitter" was invented by Benn H. Gleason (Tucson, Ariz.), Gerald P. Uyeno (Tucson, Ariz.) and Sean D. Keller (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable laser transmitter pairs a MEMS MMA with an optical amplifier to provide a high-power steered laser beam over a wide FOR. A single MEMS MMA may be positioned downstream of the optical amplifier. In a two-stage architecture, a MEMS MMA provides continuous fine steer upstream of the optical amplifier and a beam...