US Patent Issued to Raytheon on March 25 for "Spectral beam combiner supporting embedded auto-alignment scheme" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,406, issued on March 25, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Spectral beam combiner supporting embedded auto-alignment scheme" was invented by Justin R. Paul (Melissa, Texas), David R. McCormick (Celina, Texas) and Justin O. Compton (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an auto-alignment laser configured to generate an auto-alignment laser beam. The apparatus also includes a spectral beam combiner having a diffraction grating. The diffraction grating is configured to diffract multiple input laser beams to produce a combined beam having a higher power or energy compared to the individual input...