ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,412, issued on June 24, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Laser processing apparatus and laser processing method" was invented by Naotoshi Kirihara (Tokyo), Hiroshi Morikazu (Tokyo), Yohei Kaneko (Tokyo) and Kentaro Odanaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser processing apparatus includes a laser oscillating mechanism for emitting pulsed laser beams. The laser oscillating mechanism includes a group setting section for establishing the number of pulsed laser beams to be applied to a workpiece until a time after which melted debris produced by the pulsed laser beams applied to the workpiece is solidified, and assigns the ...