ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,627, issued on July 29, was assigned to AMADA Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Laser machining apparatus, laser machining method, and processing program creation device" was invented by Kazuhisa Nogi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Noboru Kikkawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The laser machining apparatus of the present invention is configured to analyze and adjust a cutting order of opening forming regions in order to prevent a scrap rising from interfering with a laser head by determining a first opening forming region and a second opening forming region based on interfering conditions of the scrap rising with the laser head an...