US Patent Issued to NLIGHT on July 21 for "Rotating beam switch" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,678, issued on July 21, was assigned to NLIGHT INC. (Camas, Wash.).

"Rotating beam switch" was invented by Francesco Pescarmona (Camas, Wash.) and Giammarco Rossi (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may steer an optical beam provided by a collimating optical module to a selected one of receiving optical modules. The apparatus may comprise an optical component to receive the optical beam provided by the collimating optical module; and a motorized rotation stage including a base and a rotating section, wherein the rotating section is restricted to rotation, relative to the base, about a single axis; wherein the op...