US Patent Issued to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems on April 21 for "Systems and methods providing free-space optical beam control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,898, issued on April 21, was assigned to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods providing free-space optical beam control" was invented by Steven Jensen (Santee, Calif.), Adam Geboff (Campbell, Calif.), Jason Higuchi (Temple City, Calif.) and Drew DeJarnette (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide optical path control systems, comprising: a control circuit; a first optical steering system that induces a first optical path directional adjustment to an optical path within a first angular range; and a solid-state optical steering system induces a second optical path direct...