ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,370, issued on June 23, was assigned to TRUMPF SCHWEIZ AG (Gruesch, Switzerland).

"3D laser device for ultrashort pulses" was invented by Stefan Marzenell (Malans, Switzerland), Stefan Knupfer (Malans, Switzerland), Christoph Weinert (Gruesch, Switzerland) and Thorsten Ulm (Landquart, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser device includes a laser module for generating a laser beam of sub-nanosecond laser pulses with a laser source, and arranged downstream of the laser module in a beam path of the laser beam, a deviating instrument for variable deviation of the laser beam in two spatial directions. The laser device further...