US Patent Issued to BYSTRONIC LASER on Jan. 13 for "Determination of contour fidelity for a laser cutting machine" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,817, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BYSTRONIC LASER AG (Niederonz, Switzerland).

"Determination of contour fidelity for a laser cutting machine" was invented by Titus Haas (Brittnau, Switzerland), Andreas Luedi (Burgdorf, Switzerland) and Stefan Wittwer (Herzogenbuchsee, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the present invention relates to a contour checking device for calculating path deviations from a target path of a cutting head of a laser machine tool. The contour checking device comprises a reference texture interface for reading a reference texture along the target path, which is defined in particular ...