ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,245, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).
"Homogeneous support for large optical elements" was invented by Torsten Beck (Stuttgart, Germany), Silke Thierfelder (Ditzingen, Germany), Michael Fischer (Stuttgart, Germany), Andreas Heimes (Althengstett, Germany) and Thomas Zeller (Sindelfingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device mounts a large-scale optical unit, and includes a carrier plate; a rigid support surface, which is arranged on the carrier plate and is designed for mounting a bottom surface of the large-scale optical unit in a predetermined position and a prede...