ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,751, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Laser processing apparatus and laser processing method" was invented by Naotoshi Kirihara (Tokyo), Hiroshi Morikazu (Tokyo), Yohei Kaneko (Tokyo) and Kentaro Odanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser beam irradiating unit of a laser processing apparatus includes a laser oscillating mechanism. The laser oscillating mechanism includes a group setting unit configured to, on a condition that a pulsed laser beam is applied at shorter time intervals than a length of time that molten debris is generated, set the number of pulsed laser beams to be applied until a time ...