US Patent Issued to SATISLOH on Feb. 17 for "Surfacing station for manufacturing optical elements and related manufacturing facility" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,979, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SATISLOH AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Surfacing station for manufacturing optical elements and related manufacturing facility" was invented by Lawrence Michael Clarke (Zug, Switzerland), Michael Kreis (Gruendau, Germany) and Johannes Claar (Ebsdorfergrund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a surfacing station for processing of surfaces of optical elements as workpieces, including a processing unit configured to process surfaces of optical elements; a controller unit configured to communicate with a database containing processing protocols, which can be carried out by the surf...