US Patent Issued to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS on March 18 for "System and method for coupling an optical beam into a light receiver" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,726, issued on March 18, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"System and method for coupling an optical beam into a light receiver" was invented by Jonas Foelling (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for coupling at least one optical beam includes at least one optical beam entry port, an optical beam exit port, the optical beam exit port including a lens performing a Fourier Transform, at least one optical beam deflector, and an optical base element, wherein the at least one directly fixed optical beam deflector is allowed to rotate around a rotation axis, wherein the corresponding a...