ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,117, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to RAYLASE GmbH (Wessling, Germany).
"Balanced mirror unit for laser deflection device and related balancing method" was invented by Jan Vlacil (Gilching, Germany) and Matthias Mildner (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples relate to a method for balancing a mirror unit for a laser deflection device comprising a mirror, a rotor for rotating the mirror around a rotation axis, and a mirror holder holding the mirror to the rotor. The mirror, the rotor, and the mirror holder are balanced using one or more balancing weights to modify a mass distribution of the mirror unit in the mirror plane a...