ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,506, issued on April 21, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Control device, control method, and fiber laser device" was invented by Tatsuya Yamamoto (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for controlling two or more laser diode (LD) modules each supplying pumping light to a variable-output fiber laser, includes: a controller that sets, in accordance with a set value of laser output power of the variable-output fiber laser, a number of LD modules to which a driving current is supplied among the two or more LD modules."
The patent was filed on Dec. 28, 2022, under Application No. 18/147,678.
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