ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,231, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER GMBH (Schramberg, Germany).
"Method for joining at least two parts to be joined" was invented by Benjamin Fuehra (Schramberg, Germany) and Sebastian Hecker (Salem, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for joining at least two parts by using ultrashort laser pulses of a laser beam of an ultrashort pulse laser is provided. At least one of the two parts to be joined is transparent for a wavelength of the ultrashort laser pulses. The method includes joining the at least two parts by using the ultrashort laser pulses of the laser beam along a joining seam. The joining seam ...