US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on May 26 for "Folded optical system with input centration sensing and output angle sensing" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,663, issued on May 26, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Folded optical system with input centration sensing and output angle sensing" was invented by Chapin T. Johnson (Nashua, N.H.) and Nicholas Bergstrom (Hudson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first mirror reflecting an input light beam as an intermediate light beam, a second mirror reflecting the intermediate light beam as an output light beam, an angle sensor measuring an angle of the output light beam, and a centration sensor measuring a centration of the input light beam. The apparatus f...