ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,641, issued on April 7, was assigned to Schneider GmbH & Co. KG (Fronhausen, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for processing optical workpieces" was invented by Gunter Schneider (Marburg, Germany), Klaus Hofmann (Wehrheim, Germany) and Hans-Joachim Link (Biedenkopf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for processing optical workpieces, having a working space, wherein workpiece spindles for receiving and holding the optical workpieces and tool spindles with processing tools receivable thereon for processing the optical workpieces are arranged in the working space, wherein the tool spindl...