US Patent Issued to BYSTRONIC LASER on Dec. 23 for "Detection of foreign parts and slag on a worktable" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,728, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BYSTRONIC LASER AG (Niederoenz, Switzerland).

"Detection of foreign parts and slag on a worktable" was invented by Stefan Alfons Jacobi (Bad Westernkotten, Germany) and Herbert Villiger (Bolken, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for checking for foreign parts and/or deposits on support elements of a worktable, wherein the support elements are provided to support a flat workpiece for cutting with a laser or a water jet, wherein the support elements are arranged parallel to one another and have a first distance from one another, comprising: a sensor for ...