US Patent Issued to TRUMPF PHOTONICS, TRUMPF LASER on March 3 for "Device for the beam shaping of an incident laser beam" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,334, issued on March 3, was assigned to TRUMPF PHOTONICS INC. (Cranbury, N.J.) and TRUMPF LASER GMBH (Schramberg, Germany).

"Device for the beam shaping of an incident laser beam" was invented by Thomas Rataj (Berlin), Lukas Irmler (Constance, Germany), Alexander Killi (Trossingen, Germany), Steffen Ried (Rottweil, Germany) and Christoph Wieschendorf (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for beam shaping of a laser beam includes a prism, a polarization rotator, and a thin-film polarizer. The prism is configured to split an incident laser beam into a first beam half and a second beam half. The first ...