US Patent Issued to II-VI DELAWARE on March 31 for "Laser beam brilliance enhancing beam splitting for laser welding/brazing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,447, issued on March 31, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Laser beam brilliance enhancing beam splitting for laser welding/brazing" was invented by Jeroen Jonkers (Berlin), Gunnar Koehler (Potsdam, Germany) and Paul Sonntag (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser processing head can be used for joining (e.g., welding, brazing, soldering, etc.) workpieces. A collimator collimates laser light, which passes to a beam splitter. The beam splitter has anti-reflective and high-reflective coatings on peripheral and inner areas of the beam splitter. The beam splitter splits the collimated light into central or ...