US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Jena on Nov. 11 for "Method for adjusting the holder of an optical element held in a holder, optical component and optical assembly" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,111, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Method for adjusting the holder of an optical element held in a holder, optical component and optical assembly" was invented by Stefan Frank (Jena, Germany), Michael Schulz (Tonna, Germany), Manfred Kresser (Jena, Germany), Martin Weiss (Jena, Germany) and Tobias Beier (Gera, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element held in a holder has a first optical surface which has no rotational symmetry with regard to its imaging axis. The holder has at least one reference element, which defines a position and/or orientation of the holder in a predef...