ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,350, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD. (Lod, Israel).

"Optical pointing and tracking system" was invented by Liran Shimshi (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and Guerman Pasmanik (Bat-Yam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a probe laser device configured to transmit a probe pulse towards an object, thereby obtaining a reflected probe pulse, a reorientation module including a film polarizer, a medium and a phase conjugate mirror, wherein a path of the reflected probe pulse from its reflection to the film polarizer is designated as a reflected probe path, wherein the reorientation module is op...