US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER on Aug. 11 for "Device, laser system and method for combining coherent laser beams" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,433, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER GMBH (Schramberg, Germany).

"Device, laser system and method for combining coherent laser beams" was invented by Daniel Flamm (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Andreas Heimes (Renningen, Germany) and Maike Prossotowicz (Aichhalden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for combining a plurality of coherent laser beams includes a splitting device for splitting an input laser beam into the plurality of coherent laser beams, a plurality of phase setting devices for adjusting a respective phase of one of the coherent laser beams, and a beam combining device for combining the cohere...