ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,224, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).

"Method for producing a light deflection structure, use of a substrate having such a light deflection structure, and light deflection unit having such a light deflection structure" was invented by Felix Zimmermann (Ditzingen, Germany) and Malte Kumkar (Weimar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a light deflection structure includes the steps of: a) producing a first plurality of interaction regions, in which at least one laser beam interacts with the substrate material along a first path with a spatial overlap...