US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur forderung der angewandten Forschung on March 3 for "Method and device for cutting a metal-containing foil, and laser-cut metal-containing foil" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,903, issued on March 3, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Method and device for cutting a metal-containing foil, and laser-cut metal-containing foil" was invented by Maximilian Josef Eckl (Dresden, Germany), Gerrit Mader (Dresden, Germany), Julius Roch (Dresden, Germany), Philipp Thummler (Dresden, Germany) and Thomas Abendroth (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and a device for cutting a foil which contains at least one layer of metal. The laser for cutting the foil is controlled such that pulsed laser radiation cuts through at least o...