ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,614, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Laser processing apparatus" was invented by Koji Shiono (Tokyo) and Haruki Kamiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser beam irradiation unit of a laser processing apparatus includes a first splitting unit that causes a laser beam emitted from a laser oscillator to branch into a first optical path and a second optical path, a first beam condenser that focuses the laser beam having been introduced to the first optical path, and a second beam condenser that focuses the laser beam having been introduced to the second optical path. The laser beam irradiation unit f...