ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,487, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to FERDINAND-BRAUN-INSTITUT GGMBH, LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR HOCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK (Berlin).

"Device for generating laser radiation" was invented by Goetz Erbert (Lobau, Germany), Hans Wenzel (Berlin), Steffen Knigge (Konigs Wusterhausen, Germany), Christian Dominik Martin (Berlin), Andre Maassdorf (Berlin), Pietro Della Casa (Berlin), Andrea Knigge (Konigs Wusterhausen, Germany) and Paul Crump (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device for generating laser radiation.An object of the present invention is to indicate a laser diode which simultaneously has a high degre...