US Patent Issued to Electro Scientific Industries on April 21 for "Conditioning device for reducing positional sensitivity of laser beam on photodetector and method of using the same" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,501, issued on April 21, was assigned to Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (Beverton, Ore.).

"Conditioning device for reducing positional sensitivity of laser beam on photodetector and method of using the same" was invented by Patrick Zabawa (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system, a conditioning device includes a diffuser, a lens configured to focus a beam of laser energy onto the diffuser and an iris configured to transmit at least a portion of the beam of laser energy transmitted by the diffuser."

The patent was filed on Aug. 12, 2022, under Application No. 18/689,885.

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