US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena on Sept. 1 for "Optical beam former and maskless character projector" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,177, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich) and Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (Jena, Germany).

"Optical beam former and maskless character projector" was invented by Peter Schreiber (Jena, Germany), Rohan Kundu (Jena, Germany) and Dirk Michaelis (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical beam former for generating an emerging light beam from an incident light beam includes a condenser lens array for receiving the incident light beam, wherein the condenser lens array includes a plurality of condenser lenses. The optical beam former includes a...