ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,719, issued on May 19, was assigned to Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH (Sudheide, Germany).

"Laser beam device with coupling of an illuminating laser beam into an effective laser beam" was invented by Markus Jung (Eicklingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a laser beam device for generating an effective laser beam and an illuminating laser beam, having a coupling element for coupling the illuminating laser beam into a beam path of the effective laser beam. The laser beam device is characterized in that the coupling element has a first sub-region and a second sub-region that is different from the first ...