US Patent Issued to DISCO on May 13 for "Laser processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,402, issued on May 13, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Laser processing apparatus" was invented by Hironari Ohkubo (Tokyo), Yuta Yoshida (Tokyo), Kuo Wei Wu (Tokyo), Keita Obara (Tokyo) and Shinya Honda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser processing apparatus includes a laser beam applying unit for applying a laser beam to a workpiece, an image capturing unit for producing a captured image of the workpiece that includes a captured image of light emitted from the workpiece when the laser beam is applied to the workpiece by the laser beam applying unit, and a control unit. The laser beam applying unit includes a laser o...