ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,383, issued on July 7, was assigned to AMADA Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Laser processing machine and laser processing method" was invented by Yoshiyuki Oribe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Junichi Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser processing machine includes a coupler that is an optical device capable of changing a beam profile of a laser beam emitted from a fiber laser oscillator, a focusing lens configured to focus the laser beam emitted from the coupler, the focusing lens including a first lens region with a first focal length on an inner peripheral side thereof and a second lens region with a second focal leng...