ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,355, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Glowforge Inc. (Seattle).
"Laser fabrication with beam detection" was invented by Daniel Shapiro (Mercer Island, Wash.), Mark Gosselin (Seattle), Jared Kofron (Vashon, Wash.), Matthew Sarnoff (Seattle), Eva Kloiber (Seattle) and Nicodemus Empyrean Paradiso (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-numerically-controlled (CNC) machine is configured to (i) measure a power of a beam of electromagnetic energy at a location between a source of the electromagnetic energy and a destination in the CNC machine, the beam of electromagnetic energy traveling from the source to the destination be...