US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on June 23 for "Material processing by turbo burst ultrafast laser pulse" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,739, issued on June 23, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Material processing by turbo burst ultrafast laser pulse" was invented by S. Abbas Hosseini (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for scribing transparent material with a laser is provided. The method includes providing relative movement between the laser and the transparent material, pulsing the laser at a first pulse repetition rate in a kHz range to establish a speed of scribing of the transparent material, and forming each of said first laser pulses with a series of second laser pulses having a second pulse repetition rate ...