ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,003, issued on May 20, was assigned to AMADA Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Processing program creation device, method for determining scattering direction of molten metal, laser processing machine, and laser processing method" was invented by Takuya Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimum scattering angle calculator calculates an optimum scattering angle at which molten metal is most desirably scattered at a time of piercing processing of opening a pierced hole in a sheet metal to fabricate a first product, the molten metal being not adhered to an approach path and not adhered to a processing path for a sec...