US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER-UND SYSTEMTECHNIK on Nov. 25 for "Method for the laser welding of a workpiece, with beam shaping by means of an axicon, and optical apparatus" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,045, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER-UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).

"Method for the laser welding of a workpiece, with beam shaping by means of an axicon, and optical apparatus" was invented by Daniel Flamm (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for laser welding of a workpiece includes providing a laser beam using a laser beam source, collimating the laser beam using a collimation optical unit, reshaping the collimated laser beam using a reshaping optical unit, and focusing the reshaped laser beam using a focusing unit. The focused laser beam is directed onto the workpiece to be w...