US Patent Issued to KEYENCE on May 13 for "Laser marking apparatus, marking method, and print setting apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,615, issued on May 13, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laser marking apparatus, marking method, and print setting apparatus" was invented by Ryohei Suzaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Boldface printing having a sufficient line width is more easily implemented as compared with the related art. A laser marking apparatus includes a laser light output section, a laser light scanning section, a storage section, and a marking control section. The marking control section scans UV laser light along an outer scanning line farther from a center line of a line element of a character corresponding to print data for...