ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,351, issued on July 14, was assigned to The University of Birmingham (Birmingham, Great Britain).

"Laser system" was invented by Kai Bongs (Birmingham, Great Britain), Mehdi Langlois (Birmingham, Great Britain), Luuk Earl (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Michael Holynski (Birmingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single arm laser system comprising a first in-phase quadrature modulator, IQM. The first IQM is configured to receive a single frequency fibred laser beam from a frequency locked laser seed, generate a first single side-band frequency based on a carrier frequency of the single frequency fibred laser beam and ...