ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,748, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to PRECITEC GMBH & Co. KG (Gaggenau-Bad Rotenfels, Germany).

"Method for determining a position of a workpiece for a laser machining process, and laser machining system" was invented by Jonas Nolte (Karlsruhe, Germany), Sascha Grau (Karlsruhe, Germany), Alexis Donke (Pforzheim, Germany), Thorsten Lorenz (Iffezheim, Germany), Wei Quang Duong (Rastatt, Germany), Rudiger Moser (Malsch, Germany), Jens Reiser (Rheinstetten, Germany), Markus Kogel-Hollacher (Haibach, Germany) and Jens Weidensdorfer (Gernsbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a position of a workpiece for ...