US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE on May 19 for "Optical focusing and collection system" (French, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,864, issued on May 19, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Optical focusing and collection system" was invented by Eric Clot (Grenoble, France), Isabelle Joumard (Grenoble, France), Vladimir Naletov (Kazan, Russia) and Olivier Klein (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical focusing and collecting system includes: a first optical shaping portion, including an output surface, adapted to supply a primary light beam which is made annular; a second optical focusing and collecting portion, including a conical uppe...