ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,114, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Electron beam modulation device and electron beam modulation method" was invented by Yuuki Uesugi (Sendai, Japan), Shunichi Sato (Sendai, Japan) and Yuichi Kozawa (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electron beam modulation device according to the present disclosure includes a light source configured to emit laser light, a polarization conversion part including a modulation plane configured to modulate a direction of polarization and an intensity of the laser light emitted from the light source, and a condensing element configured to condense the...