US Patent Issued to SYNOVA on March 17 for "Method for determining a position of a liquid jet" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,458, issued on March 17, was assigned to SYNOVA SA (Dullier, Switzerland).

"Method for determining a position of a liquid jet" was invented by Bernold Richerzhagen (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland), Adrian Gheorghe (Lausanne, Switzerland), Maximilian Epple (Assens, Switzerland) and Annika Richmann (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a spatial position of a liquid jet, in particular of a liquid jet for optically guiding a laser beam, comprises the steps: providing a collision object having a measuring point for interacting with the liquid jet, detecting a state of the liquid jet in a first config...