ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,055, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Laser irradiation apparatus and laser irradiation method" was invented by Hiroyuki Tanabe (Tokyo), Kazunori Watanabe (Tokyo) and Keiichi Serizawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser irradiation apparatus includes a laser source configured to emit a laser beam to an object that is being conveyed to allow the object to be irradiated with the laser beam; a rotation detector configured to detect rotation of the object to obtain information on the rotation of the object; and circuitry configured to control laser irradiation onto the object based on the info...