US Patent Issued to Precitec on March 11 for "Device and method for determining a focal position of laser beam" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,867, issued on March 11, was assigned to Precitec GmbH & Co. KG (Gaggenau, Germany).

"Device and method for determining a focal position of laser beam" was invented by David Blazquez Sanchez (Gaggenau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining a focal position of a laser beam, in particular a processing laser beam in a laser processing head, has an optical decoupling element for decoupling a partial beam from a beam path of the laser beam, a detector for detecting at least one beam parameter of the partial beam, and at least one optical element with an adjustable focal length, which is arranged in a region of t...