US Patent Issued to Electro Scientific Industries on Oct. 28 for "Laser processing apparatus, methods of laser-processing workpieces and related arrangements" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,029, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Laser processing apparatus, methods of laser-processing workpieces and related arrangements" was invented by Jan Kleinert (Beaverton, Ore.), Zhibin Lin (Beaverton, Ore.) and Hisashi Matsumoto (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and techniques for laser-processing workpieces can be improved, and new functionalities can be provided. Some embodiments discussed relate to processing of workpieces in a manner resulting in enhanced accuracy, throughput, etc. Other embodiments relate to realtime Z-height measurement and, when ...