ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,380, issued on June 23, was assigned to Stable Laser Systems Inc. (Boulder, Colo.).

"Laser frequency stabilization" was invented by Josue Davila-Rodriguez (Boulder, Colo.), William David Lee (Boulder, Colo.) and Mark Notcutt (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser stabilization system and method are provided. The laser stabilization system includes: a laser configured to produce a laser light signal at a target frequency; a phase modulator configured to apply a phase modulation to the laser light signal to produce a phase modulated laser light signal; a stable optical resonator configured to receive the phase modulated...