US Patent Issued to WBC Photonics on Feb. 3 for "Laser head configurations and techniques for materials processing" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,558, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to WBC Photonics Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Laser head configurations and techniques for materials processing" was invented by Wang-Long Zhou (Andover, Mass.), Francisco Villarreal-Saucedo (Middleton, Mass.), Bryan Lochman (Nashville, Tenn.) and Bien Chann (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a laser head receives a laser output beam from a laser system or resonator without the use of a delivery optical fiber, and any asymmetry of the laser output beam may be maintained. The laser head may be physically rotatable to control orientation of the laser beam along a pro...