ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,442, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Freeform collimator lens for angled facet laser devices" was invented by Guthrie Partridge (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Joao Mendes-Lopes (Lisbon, Portugal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus having a waveguide and a freeform collimating lens. The waveguide is characterized by a waveguide axis and a planar end having a normal axis that is inclined at an end angle that is greater than 0 degrees with respect to the waveguide axis. The freeform collimating lens collimates light leaving the planar end of the waveguide into a collimated light be...