ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,447, issued on July 7, was assigned to Cymer LLC (San Diego).
"Apparatus for and method of optical component alignment" was invented by Hong Ye (San Diego) and Eric Anders Mason (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for and method of aligning optical components such as beam splitters in an optical pulse stretcher in which a landing spot of a beam which has traversed a portion of the optical beam splitter and a coincident landing spot of a beam split from a retroreflected input beam are made to align on a target spot. Also disclosed is an apparatus and method for aligning the retroreflector to facilitate proper beam align...