ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,635, issued on March 25, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.) and GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Systems and methods for hybrid-mode-family optical parametric oscillation for robust coherent light generation on-chip" was invented by Xiyuan Lu (Montgomery Village, Md.) and Kartik Srinivasan (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating a coherent laser light includes a light source configured to pump a first color laser light and a device configured to generate a coherent second color light and a...