US Patent Issued to YAMAZAKI MAZAK on Nov. 25 for "Sheet metal working system, laser machining apparatus, sheet metal working method, and machining region setting program for laser machining" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,044, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to YAMAZAKI MAZAK Corp. (Niwa-gun, Japan).

"Sheet metal working system, laser machining apparatus, sheet metal working method, and machining region setting program for laser machining" was invented by Hikaru Iryoda (Niwa-gun, Japan), Yoshihiko Sakai (Niwa-gun, Japan) and Tetsuro Nakamoto (Niwa-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet metal working system includes a laser machining apparatus for processing a sheet metal in a laser machining region, a camera for photographing the laser machining region, an illuminator for illuminating the sheet metal, and circuitry configured to process an ...