US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on June 23 for "System for fabricating an optical element" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,413, issued on June 23, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"System for fabricating an optical element" was invented by Gregory D. Goodno (Los Angeles), Joshua E. Rothenberg (Los Angeles), James G. Ho (Los Angeles) and Dustin Guenther (La Mirada, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for fabricating an optical element. The system includes means for welding an array of fibers to the optical element, means for measuring an angle error and a position error of each fiber, means for calculating a correction for each fiber for the angle error and the position error and means for correcting the angle...