US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Oct. 7 for "Adaptive spatio-temporal optical pulse shaper" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,326, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Adaptive spatio-temporal optical pulse shaper" was invented by Michael H. Helle (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fully programmable laser field shaping apparatus that can configure a beam of laser pulses in both shape and time to generate laser pulses with varying spatio-temporal profiles for adaptive nonlinear optical propagation. The laser field shaping scheme in accordance with the present invention, Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Optical Pulse Shaper (A-STOPS), utilizes dis...