US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER on Nov. 25 for "Method for distance measurement by means of OCT and associated computer program product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,757, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER GMBH (Schramberg, Germany).

"Method for distance measurement by means of OCT and associated computer program product" was invented by Martin Stambke (Dunningen, Germany) and Jan-Patrick Hermani (Markgroeningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for distance measurement includes: (a) measuring a focus distance between a z-focus position of a processing laser beam and a reference surface, and measuring a reference distance between a reference arm mirror of a coherence tomography apparatus and the reference surface using a measurement beam. The processing laser beam is d...