US Patent Issued to nLIGHT on Sept. 29 for "Functionally homogenized intensity distribution for additive manufacturing or other industrial laser processing applications" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,599, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to nLIGHT Inc. (Camas, Wash.).

"Functionally homogenized intensity distribution for additive manufacturing or other industrial laser processing applications" was invented by Juan Lugo (Vancouver, Wash.), Aaron W. Brown (Vancouver, Wash.), Jay Small (Vancouver, Wash.), Robert J. Martinsen (West Linn, Ore.) and Dahv A.V. Kliner (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for generating a laser output beam having a functionally homogenized intensity distribution. According to some embodiments, a population of few modes in a multi-mode confinement core is excited by appli...