ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,640, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Gigaphoton Inc. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Laser system, pulse laser light generating method, and electronic device manufacturing method" was invented by SeijI Nogiwa (Oyama, Japan) and Takayuki Osanai (Oyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser system includes a first laser outputting first laser light, an optical intensity changer outputting first pulse laser light, a modulator widening spectral linewidth of the first laser light or the first pulse laser light, an optical fiber amplifier amplifying the first pulse laser light and outputting second pulse laser light, a second laser outputting...