ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,776, issued on March 18, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK SE (Ditzingen, Germany).
"Method and device for laser processing a workpiece" was invented by Daniel Flamm (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Myriam Kaiser (Heimsheim, Germany) and Jonas Kleiner (Leonberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for laser processing a workpiece is provided. The workpiece includes a material transparent to a laser beam of the laser processing. The method includes splitting an input laser beam by using a beam splitter into a plurality of partial beams. The splitting of the input laser beam is performed by application of phases to a ...