US Patent Issued to Alltec Angewandte Laserlicht Technologie on May 13 for "Laser marking through the lens of an image scanning system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,609, issued on May 13, was assigned to Alltec Angewandte Laserlicht Technologie GmbH (Selmsdorf, Germany).

"Laser marking through the lens of an image scanning system" was invented by Faycal Benayad-Cherif (Lexington, Mass.) and Christopher Bahns (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser marking system comprises a laser, an image capture device, a marking head including electromagnetic energy deflectors and at least one lens, a beam path of the laser and a beam path of the image capture device both passing through the at least one lens, and a computer system operable to perform a method comprising capturing image tiles ...