US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Sept. 15 for "Method and device for preparing a grinding pattern for a metallurgical sample" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,445, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for preparing a grinding pattern for a metallurgical sample" was invented by Markus Arold (Frensdorf, Germany), Axel Bormann (Bamberg, Germany), Christoph Straubmeier (Bamberg, Germany) and Dennis Quest (Bamberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and a device for preparing a grinding pattern for a metallurgical sample (1), wherein, after preparing the sample (1), a thermal contrasting of the surface is carried out by laser equipment, wherein, using a USP laser (2), at least the following processi...