US Patent Issued to Precitec on March 24 for "Method for monitoring a laser machining process and laser machining system therefor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,056, issued on March 24, was assigned to Precitec GmbH & Co. KG (Gaggenau, Germany).

"Method for monitoring a laser machining process and laser machining system therefor" was invented by Tom Walde (Offenburg, Germany), Rudiger Moser (Malsch, Germany), Igor Shkarban (Rheinstetten, Germany) and Dejan Miletic (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a depth of a vapor capillary during laser machining includes: irradiating a machining laser beam onto a workpiece to form the capillary, the beam deflected by a first deflection device along a machining path within a first scan field, irradiating an optical...