ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,290, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Toptica Photonics SE (Grafelfing, Germany).
"Retaining arrangement for an optical element" was invented by Rami Al Kamand (Grunwald, Germany) and Markus Manhart (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a retaining arrangement with a carrier platform (2), for example in laser systems, to which at least one optical element (3) is fixed. The disclosure specifies a retaining arrangement for optical elements which ensures improved beam position stability with as little effort as possible. For this purpose, the carrier platform (2) is connected to a base (8) at bearing points...