US Patent Issued to NIKON on Aug. 12 for "Processing apparatus, and manufacturing method of movable body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,981, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing apparatus, and manufacturing method of movable body" was invented by Masayuki Shiraishi (Kumagaya, Japan), Shigeki Egami (Tokyo), Yoshio Kawabe (Kumagaya, Japan), Yosuke Tatsuzaki (Kumagaya, Japan) and Yuichi Shibazaki (Kumagaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing apparatus has: a light irradiation apparatus that irradiates a surface of an object with a processing light; a first position change apparatus that changes a position of at least one of the object and an irradiation area that is formed on the surface of the object by the light irradiatio...