US Patent Issued to AALYRIA TECHNOLOGIES on July 21 for "Hybrid adaptive optical system for free-space optical communication" (Colorado, Maryland, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,436, issued on July 21, was assigned to AALYRIA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Hybrid adaptive optical system for free-space optical communication" was invented by Igor Landau (Boulder, Colo.), Rick Young (Eagle, Idaho) and Bobbie Frederica Steinkraus (Oakland, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A free-space optical communication terminal includes an optical head, a steering device configurable to move the optical head, and one or more controllers. The optical head includes a position sensitive detector configured to measure a position of a received laser beam, a micro-gimbaled deformable mirror configurable to modify a wave...