ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,961, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Autocorrelator and pulse amplifying device including same" was invented by Dong Hoon Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Hong-Seok Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Soo Jun Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Chul Huh (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autocorrelator and a pulse amplifying device including the same are provided. The autocorrelator includes a parabolic mirror configured to transmit and reflect pulse laser beam, a prism on one side of the parabolic mirror and configured to split the pulse laser bea...