US Patent Issued to Rheinmetall Waffe Munition on Oct. 6 for "Methods and devices for reducing eye safety minimum distances in conjunction with illumination laser radiation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,295, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH (Sudheide, Germany).

"Methods and devices for reducing eye safety minimum distances in conjunction with illumination laser radiation" was invented by Markus Jung (Eicklingen, Germany), Thomas Baumgartel (Celle, Germany), Klaus Ludewigt (Hamburg, Germany) and Jurgen Schmitz (Gifhorn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for operating a laser radiation device (10) that has an illumination laser (14) and an active laser (13), and wherein, in a first operating mode of the laser radiation device (10) in which the active laser (13) does not emit a...