ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,431, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (Sydney).

"Beam intensity profile tailoring with a composite, tapered optical fibre" was invented by Deepak Jain (Sydney) and Simon Fleming (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite all optical-fibre based tapered photonic waveguide (110) including a single or multiple secondary waveguides (120) within or around a primary waveguide (118) is described. The composite optical fibre may also be termed abeam tailoring optical fibre (BT Fibre) (110). In use, at the larger secondary end (114) both the primary waveguide (118) and the secondary waveguide/s (120) may gui...