ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,705, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Surfunction GmbH (Saarbruecken, Germany) and Dlip UG (Saarlouis, Germany).
"Arrangement of optical elements and method for forming structural patterns" was invented by Sascha Teutoburg-Weiss (Dresden, Germany) and Andres F. Lasagni (Grumbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement in which an angular prism is formed with two triangular part prisms which are connected to one another by a layer having properties splitting at least one laser beam into part beams. The two part prisms have two identical acute angles Alpha. The laser beam is directed onto an outward-facing surface of...