US Patent Issued to SYNOVA on April 22 for "Method and apparatus for cutting and ablating a workpiece with a complex fluid-jet-guided laser beam" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,449, issued on April 22, was assigned to SYNOVA S.A. (Duillier, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for cutting and ablating a workpiece with a complex fluid-jet-guided laser beam" was invented by Florent Bruckert (Sciez-sur-Leman, France), Gilles Soulier (Romont, Switzerland), Gregoire Laporte (Prilly, Switzerland) and Bernold Richerzhagen (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method 100 and an apparatus 300 for cutting or ablating a particular material of the workpiece with a pulsed laser beam coupled into a fluid jet. The method comprises producing the pulsed laser beam with at least ...