US Patent Issued to Gigaphoton on Oct. 7 for "Bypass apparatus, laser apparatus, and electronic device manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,327, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Gigaphoton Inc. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Bypass apparatus, laser apparatus, and electronic device manufacturing method" was invented by Shinichi Matsumoto (Oyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bypass apparatus is attachable to and detachable from a laser apparatus, and constitutes a bypass optical path bypassing a pulse width stretching apparatus stretching the pulse width of pulse laser light having entered the pulse width stretching apparatus, the bypass apparatus including optical elements constituting the bypass optical path, and an enclosure housing the optical elements, the optical eleme...