US Patent Issued to ALPAO on July 21 for "Adaptive optical device and associated manufacturing process" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,713, issued on July 21, was assigned to ALPAO (Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France).

"Adaptive optical device and associated manufacturing process" was invented by Marie Emilie Laslandes (Gieres, France) and Damien Stefanuto (Le Versoud, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved adaptive optical device and associated manufacturing process. The invention relates to an adaptive optical system comprising: a deformable primary plate having an optical surface for deforming an incident wavefront, a plurality of primary actuators for applying a force to said primary plate in order to deform said optical surface, a structure that is fixed w...