ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,991, issued on May 12, was assigned to Fenix Research Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Laser power detection using normalized linear slices to construct gaussian profiles" was invented by Yong Jin Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for determining total laser power with photodiode sensors used to measure irradiance from the beam strike of the laser to identify linear offset Gaussian slices. The Gaussian for the slices is then solved to obtain a Gaussian profile, wherein solving to obtain the Gaussian profile includes: measuring an angle of incidence of a central axis of the laser beam rel...