US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents On Behalf Of The University Of Arizona on Sept. 22 for "Optical system, laser spot position determination process, and calibration process for deterministically shaping substrates using laser pulses" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,339, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents On Behalf Of The University Of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Optical system, laser spot position determination process, and calibration process for deterministically shaping substrates using laser pulses" was invented by Brandon Chalifoux (Tucson, Ariz.), Ian Arnold (Tucson, Ariz.) and Kevin Laverty (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for determining laser pulse positions for shaping an optical element may comprise: determining a stress field for at least a portion of a substrate, wherein the stress field comprises at least three components of stress, wh...