ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,053, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to General Lasertronics Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Coating ablating apparatus with coating removal detection" was invented by James W. Thomas (Los Altos, Calif.), Raymond J. Noel (San Francisco) and Mitchell R. Wool (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser-based coating removal apparatus to remove a coating from a surface without damaging the surface. The apparatus comprises a laser source to provide a laser light, a routing element coupled to the laser source and configured to direct the laser light onto a target region of the surface thereby removing the coating from the target re...