ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,361, issued on July 14, was assigned to Palomino Laboratories Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Compact ultra-violet laser diode configured for lidar system for air turbulence detection" was invented by Steven P. Denbaars (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dalton Eng-Denbaars (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, techniques related generally to correction of atmospheric turbulence beam control (CAT) configured with a distributed feedback (DFB) laser diode device are provided. In particular, the present invention provides a method and system for using a DFB laser diode device for correcting atmospheric tu...