ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,225, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Olympus Corp. (Tokyo).
"Control device and control method" was invented by Yuhei Takata (Mitaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device, comprising: a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: control a laser light source to emit a first instance of a laser light, calculate an overlap information related to an overlap area of an irradiation area of an irradiation target that is irradiated with the first instance of the laser light, and control the laser light source to emit a second instance of the laser light based on the overlap information."
The patent ...