ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,605, issued on June 9, was assigned to Leonardo S.P.A. (Rome).

"Coherent beam combination system and control method thereof" was invented by Fabrizio Giuseppe Bisesto (Pomezia, Italy), Alessandro Perna (Pomezia, Italy), Francesco Coppola (Pomezia, Italy) and Alberto Cosentino (Pomezia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The coherent beam recombination system provides an output recombined beam and comprises: a laser source providing a source beam with linewidth; a beam broadener providing a broadened beam from the source beam; a splitter splitting the broadened beam into a plurality of secondary beams; a plurality of channels coupled...