ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,276, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to PLX Inc. (Deer Park, N.Y.).
"Monolithic beamsplitter array" was invented by Itai Vishnia (Setauket, N.Y.) and Malcolm Humphrey (Hicksville, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolithic optical system for creating a plurality of equally spaced identical laser beams while maintaining pointing accuracy of the laser beams relative to each other with respect to both position and angle. The monolithic optical system includes a mirror configured to receive a laser beam in a first direction and reflect the laser beam in a second direction and a beamsplitter array having a first beamsplitter and a sec...