ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,899, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cycle GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchroton DESY (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for controlling a pulse repetition rate of a pulsed laser beam, and pulsed laser oscillator with stabilized pulse repetition rate" was invented by Kemal Shafak (Hamburg, Germany), Dai Anan (Hamburg, Germany) and Franz Xaver Kaertner (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for controlling a pulse repetition rate of pulsed laser beam 1 created by pulsed laser oscillator 100, includes generating beam 1 by oscillator 100, splitting beam 1 into first pulsed ...