ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,602, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Soochow University (Suzhou, China).

"Method for realizing high-speed cladding of hollow offset-focus annular laser" was invented by Tuo Shi (Suzhou, China), Rongwei Zhang (Suzhou, China), Geyan Fu (Suzhou, China), Shihong Shi (Suzhou, China) and Yu Wang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for realizing high-speed cladding of hollow offset-focus annual laser. The method includes the following steps: dividing laser into annual light, and forming an offset-focus annual light spot after the annual light is focused, which acts on a surface of a matrix; during cladding for the su...