US Patent Issued to X Development on Feb. 4 for "Method of precision beam collimation using fiber-optic circulator and wavelength tunable source" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,885, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method of precision beam collimation using fiber-optic circulator and wavelength tunable source" was invented by Nam-Hyong Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Andrei Kazmierski (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Paul Epp (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calibrating a collimating lens system includes transmitting, using an optical transmitter, a beam out of an optical fiber and through a collimating lens of the collimating lens system. The beam is reflected off a perfect flat mirror positioned at an output of the collimating lens and back towards ...