ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,621, issued on April 7, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Device and method for inspecting laser welding protective glass" was invented by Gilbert Couedic (Briec, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical inspection device designed for testing an optical component such as a protective glass, an optical transmission system of a welding laser beam having a laser wavelength, comprising: a light source designed to emit a test light, receiving means designed to receive at least a portion of the test light and to quantify at least one quantity of the received light, means for holding the optical component d...