US Patent Issued to DILAS Diodenlaser on July 14 for "Laser power monitoring with lens sampling device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,866, issued on July 14, was assigned to DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH (Mainz, Germany).

"Laser power monitoring with lens sampling device" was invented by Tobias Konning (Nackenheim, Germany), Henning Furst (Stadecken-Elsheim, Germany) and Bernd Kohler (Saulheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser apparatus with power monitoring includes a laser source to generate a laser beam, a photodetector to monitor a power of the laser beam, and a transmissive, lens-based sampling device positioned in a beam path of the laser beam. The sampling device includes a partially reflective curved surface generate and focus a partial reflection of...