US Patent Issued to Primes GmbH Messtechnik fur die Produktion mit Laserstrahlung on May 27 for "Device and method for determining a focal point" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,455, issued on May 27, was assigned to Primes GmbH Messtechnik fur die Produktion mit Laserstrahlung (Pfungstadt, Germany).

"Device and method for determining a focal point" was invented by Reinhard Kramer (Pfungstadt, Germany), Otto Marten (Dreieich, Germany), Stefan Wolf (GroB-Gerau, Germany), Johannes RoBnagel (Mainz-Kastel, Germany), Marc Hansel (Darmstadt, Germany) and Roman Niedrig (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a beam analysis device (10) for determining the axial position of the focal point (71) of an energy beam or a sample beam (70) decoupled from an energy beam, comprising a beam-shaping de...