US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus, laser system and method for combining coherent laser beams" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,973, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER GMBH (Schramberg, Germany).

"Apparatus, 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 configured to split an input laser beam into the plurality of coherent laser beams, a plurality of phase setting devices configured to adjust a respective phase of one of the plurality of coherent laser beams, and a beam combining de...