US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 11 for "Optical resonator, and laser processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,394, issued on March 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical resonator, and laser processing apparatus" was invented by Kouki Ichihashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical resonator of wavelength beam combining type, includes: a laser diode array having a plurality of laser elements arranged along a predetermined direction and configured to emit light beams having wavelengths different from one another; a diffraction grating that diffracts the light beam emitted from each of the laser elements at a diffraction angle corresponding to the wavelength of the li...