US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on May 5 for "Method and apparatus for compensating for atmospheric distortion" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,093, issued on May 5, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Method and apparatus for compensating for atmospheric distortion" was invented by Kyle Robert Drexler (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atmospheric distortion compensator for a free space optical beam comprising: a disc that is rotationally balanced about a center point and that comprises a phase-modifying structure; an optical beam source configured to generate a free space optical beam that propagates through the disc and then through turbulence in open air to a point in space where reducing scintillati...