Further to the patent published back in August, and posted on the main forum.

This US patent issued today (seems to be same patent from Aug)

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=taylor-Geoff-w.INNM.&OS=in/taylor-Geoff-w&RS=IN/taylor-Geoff-w

at the time I was wondering about this INTOP Corp, some more digging has found some dated (1983) laser weapons research carried out at Naval Air Weapons China Lake, with materials supplied by INTOP Corp. and participation by Northrop.  Coincidentally, Northrop is also a company involved in the Navy’s current InTop program as pointed out to us by this post from Morning Star.  The research at China Lake is clearly unrelated to the Navy InTop program, but there is a military theme present.