US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER on June 30 for "Method and device for laser processing a workpiece" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,913, issued on June 30, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER GMBH (Schramberg, Germany).

"Method and device for laser processing a workpiece" was invented by Daniel Flamm (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Jonas Kleiner (Leonberg, Germany) and Myriam Kaiser (Heimsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for laser processing of a workpiece that has a transparent material includes dividing an input laser beam into a plurality of sub-beams by using a beam splitting element, focusing the sub-beams coupled out of the beam splitting element to form multiple focus elements, and applying the focus elements to the material of the workpiece for the ...