US Patent Issued to TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik on Feb. 4 for "Methods and devices for monitoring a welding process for welding glass workpieces" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,444, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH (Ditzingen, Germany).

"Methods and devices for monitoring a welding process for welding glass workpieces" was invented by Sebastian Hecker (Aichhalden, Germany) and Tim Hesse (Ditzingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for monitoring a welding process for welding at least one glass workpiece to another workpiece, the workpieces being welded together in a process zone that is exposed to a processing beam, e.g., to a laser beam, such as an ultra-short-pulse laser beam, wherein radiation emitted by the ...