ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,758, issued on July 8, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).
"Procedure for laser drilling a plurality of holes on the basis of the focal position" was invented by Thomas Beck (Panketal, Germany), Oliver Katzurke (Berlin), Marcel Vollgold (Potsdam, Germany) and Richard Zimmermann (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a plurality of holes in a curved surface, wherein the individual holes are removed layer by layer, the first layers to be removed of the holes being arranged at different distances in a Z-direction of the laser, the holes each being processed in a specific focal pos...