US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Apparatus and method for in-situ optical inspection of laser-induced surface modifications and laser process control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,491, issued on July 21.

"Apparatus and method for in-situ optical inspection of laser-induced surface modifications and laser process control" was invented by Iraj Kavosh (San Jose, Calif.), Raya Kavosh (San Jose, Calif.) and Roxanne Kavosh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclose a method for in-situ processing and inspection of an object including utilizing a process laser beam source in a process for a probe light beam source for in-situ inspection of an object surface, impinging at least one process laser pulse onto a target surface region, modifying at least one of the optical, mechanical, or che...