US Patent Issued to THALES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFQUE on Oct. 20 for "System and method for treating material by laser shock under confinement in a liquid" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,634, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFQUE (Paris).

"System and method for treating material by laser shock under confinement in a liquid" was invented by Alexandre Rondepierre (Elancourt, France), Yann Rouchausse (Paris) and Laurent Berthe (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for treating a target by laser shock in a regime of confinement in a liquid, the system includes a pulsed laser generating a beam having a pulse duration of between 1 ns and 30 ns and a wavelength, a concentrating optical device having a focal length and configured to concentrate...