ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,757, issued on July 8, was assigned to LASERAX INC (Quebec, Canada).
"Metal workpieces with shot blast resistant identifiers, methods and systems for laser-marking such identifiers" was invented by Alex Fraser (Quebec, Canada), Julie Maltais (Quebec, Canada), Xavier Pruneau Godmaire (Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon, Canada), Jerome Landry (Quebec, Canada) and Jean-Michael Deschenes (Levis, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a metal workpiece generally having a surface and an identifier marked on said surface. The identifier has cells each having a corresponding cell size, including bright cells corresponding to a first b...