ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,462, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER-UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).
"Optical arrangement and laser system" was invented by Thomas Zeller (Sindelfingen, Germany), Christoph Tillkorn (Villingendorf, Germany), Julian Hellstern (Rottweil, Germany), Andreas Heimes (Renningen, Germany), Christian Lingel (Kernen im Remstal, Germany), Christoph Irion (Stuttgart, Germany) and Michael Jenne (Ditzingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical arrangement converts a laser beam into a line-type beam having a line-type beam cross-section that extends along a line direction with a non-vanishing intensity. The...