ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,091, issued on May 5, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER-UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).

"Superposition device and optical system" was invented by Malte Kumkar (Weimar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superposition device includes four inputs, each respective input for entry of a respective one of four input beams, an output for exit of an output beam, a first combination device for coherent combination of a first input beam and a second input beam to form a first superposition beam, a second combination device for coherent combination of a third input beam and a fourth input beam to form a second superposition beam, an...