ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,327, issued on March 3, was assigned to Precitec GmbH & Co. KG (Gaggenau, Germany).

"Scanning device with coated mirror element and laser processing head having the same" was invented by David Blazquez Sanchez (Gaggenau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deflection device for a laser machining head for deflecting a machining laser beam for machining a workpiece includes at least one mirror element which is deformable and/or is movably arranged in order to direct the machining laser beam to different positions on the workpiece. The mirror element includes at least one substrate and at least one reflective multilayer structure w...