ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,525, issued on May 13, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).
"Multichannel optomechanical addressing unit" was invented by Christoph Wachter (Jena, Germany), Bernd Hofer (Jena, Germany) and Peter Schreiber (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device for imaging a first, object-side set of mutually parallel bundles of beams onto an image surface, includes an optical beam expansion unit; an optical rearrangement unit configured to rearrange the first set of mutually parallel bundles of beams while maintaining mutually parallelism to obtain a second set of mutu...