US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Oct. 14 for "High-brightness spatial beam combining of laser modules yielding a common image plane" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,908, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"High-brightness spatial beam combining of laser modules yielding a common image plane" was invented by David A. Rockwell (Culver City, Calif.), Fabio Di Teodoro (Hacienda Heights, Calif.), Marco A. Avila (McKinney, Texas) and Douglas W. Wolfe (La Habra Heights, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes multiple laser diode modules that are spatially separated and configured to generate multiple optical beams that propagate at angles relative to each other. The system also includes an optical element having at least one entrance surface and at least ...