US Patent Issued to Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie, Vanguard Photonics on March 18 for "Apparatus and method for optically processing an object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,803, issued on March 18, was assigned to Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Vanguard Photonics GmbH (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for optically processing an object" was invented by Matthias Lauermann (Karlsruhe, Germany), Christian Koos (Siegelsbach, Germany) and Philipp-Immanuel Dietrich (Worth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an apparatus (10) and a method for optically characterizing or processing an object (60), and to an object transport unit (55). The apparatus (10) comprises an object carrier (50) for receiving an object (60); an optical c...