US Patent Issued to DISCO on July 1 for "Laser processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,812, issued on July 1, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Laser processing apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Morikazu (Tokyo), Naotoshi Kirihara (Tokyo), Yohei Kaneko (Tokyo) and Kentaro Odanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser oscillation mechanism of a laser beam irradiation unit has a first mode to break growing debris, a second mode to suppress generation of molten debris, and a third mode to break the growing debris and suppress generation of the molten debris. The laser oscillation mechanism includes a selecting part that selects any of the first mode, the second mode, and the third mode. The laser oscillation m...