US Patent Issued to Applied Materials Israel on Nov. 3 for "Method for illuminating a substrate using a single acousto optical device" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,791, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Applied Materials Israel Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Method for illuminating a substrate using a single acousto optical device" was invented by Menachem Lapid (Hashmonaim, Israel), Roy Kaner (Rehovot, Israel), Itay Langstadter (Nir Eliyahu, Israel) and Yinnon Glickman (Maale Hahamisha, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for illuminating a substrate, the system may include an acousto-optic device (AOD); and an etendue expanding optical module. The AOD may include a surface having an illuminated region; wherein the illuminated region is configured to receive a collimated input...