ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,414, issued on May 20, was assigned to VITRONIC DR .-ING. STEIN BILDVERARBEITUNGSSYSTEME GMBH (Wiesbaden, Germany).

"Method and device for compensating beam angle variations of a beam bundle of laser beams generated by a diffractive optical element" was invented by Konstantin Ott (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Burghard Hoffmann (Taunusstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compensating beam angle variation of a beam bundle of laser beams with respective beam angles includes generating the beam bundle using a diffractive optical element, determining a beam angle value from a beam angle of at least one laser beam of a fir...