ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,962, issued on May 13, was assigned to Gigaphoton Inc. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Laser device and electronic device manufacturing method" was invented by Takahito Kumazaki (Oyama, Japan) and Osamu Wakabayashi (Oyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser device includes a first actuator configured to adjust an oscillation wavelength of pulse laser light; a second actuator configured to adjust a spectral line width of the pulse laser light; and a processor configured to determine a target spectral line width by reading data specifying a number of irradiation pulses of the pulse laser light with which one location of an irradiation rec...