ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,746, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to WSOPTICS TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Rettenbach am Auerberg, Germany).
"Beam machining of workpieces" was invented by Christoph Weiss (Schongau, Germany) and Florian Sepp (Altenstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, apparatus, and systems are described for separating workpiece parts from workpieces using a focused machining beam. The methods include creating a trough in the workpiece using the focused machining beam, the trough being created along at least one section of a contour of the at least one workpiece part to be separated from the workpiece, altering a focal position of...