US Patent Issued to TRUMPF PHOTONIC COMPONENTS, ROBERT BOSCH on March 4 for "Laser sensor, system and method for self-mixing interferometry" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,741, issued on March 4, was assigned to TRUMPF PHOTONIC COMPONENTS GMBH (Ulm, Germany) and ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Laser sensor, system and method for self-mixing interferometry" was invented by Hans Spruit (Waalre, Netherlands), Jochen Hellmig (Valkenswaard, Netherlands), Stephan Gronenborn (Aachen, Germany), Johannes Meyer (Stuttgart, Germany), Andreas Petersen (Stuttgart, Germany) and Thomas Schlebusch (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser sensor includes a laser source configured to emit a laser beam, and optics configured to project the laser beam as a one- or two-dimensional patterned laser...