ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,962, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Active transverse mode instability mitigation for high power fiber amplifiers apparatus, methods, and applications" was invented by Steffen Wittek (Orlando, Fla.), Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias (Orlando, Fla.), Daniel Cruz Delgado (Orlando, Fla.), Jose Enrique Antonio Lopez (Orlando, Fla.), Rodrigo Amezcua Correa (Orlando, Fla.) and Matthew Cooper (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for mitigating transverse mode instabilities (TMI) in high power fiber amplifiers that does not depend on acti...