ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,713, issued on May 19, was assigned to Universitat Stuttgart (Germany).

"Device and method for amplifying a laser pulse" was invented by Marwan Abdou Ahmed (Stuttgart, Germany) and Florian Bienert (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device (10) for amplifying a laser pulse which comprises a divider section (14) for dividing the laser pulse into multiple sub pulses (43) and for introducing a time delay between the sub pulses (43), a compressor section (15) for compressing the temporally divided sub pulses (43) and a combiner section (17) for combining the compressed sub pulses (44) to one compr...