US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK on March 24 for "Combination device and optical system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,136, issued on March 24, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).

"Combination device and optical system" was invented by Malte Kumkar (Weimar, Germany) and Daniel Grossmann (Schramberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination device includes at least two inputs and one or more outputs. Each input is for entry of a respective input beam. Each output is for exit of a respective output beam. The combination device is configured to form the respective output beam through a coherent combination of two input beams. The combination device is configured to set a polarization direction of the r...