US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Dec. 23 for "Laser processing device, and laser processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,730, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Laser processing device, and laser processing method" was invented by Takafumi Ogiwara (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yasunori Igasaki (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser processing apparatus includes a support part, a light source, a spatial light modulator, a converging part, and a controller. The controller controls the spatial light modulator so that laser light is branched into a plurality of rays of processing light including 0th-order light and a plurality of converging points for the plurality of rays of processing light are loc...