ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,526, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Laser system for generating a linear laser marking" was invented by Lieu-Kim Dang (Gams, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser system (10) for generating a linear laser marking (34) on a projection surface (33), including a laser beam source (11), which generates a laser beam (25) and emits it along a propagation direction (26), a first beam shaping optical unit (12) embodied as a collimation optical unit and having a first optical axis (13), and a conical mirror (14) which is embodied as a right cone having a cone axis (15) and a reflective latera...