ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,007, issued on June 3, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan) and LASER SYSTEMS INC. (Anan, Japan).

"Method for producing resin part" was invented by Ryota Taoka (Komatsushima, Japan), Ryota Takao (Anan, Japan), Minoru Yamamoto (Anan, Japan), Hiroaki Tamemoto (Anan, Japan) and Hiroshi Yaguchi (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a resin part includes: preparing an intermediate body comprising a first member and a second member, the first member containing a resin; and welding the first member with the second member by performing scanning of the intermediate body with a first laser beam and a secon...