ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,381, issued on June 23, was assigned to Gigaphoton Inc. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Laser apparatus, wavelength control method, and electronic device manufacturing method" was invented by Junichi Fujimoto (Oyama, Japan), Takahito Kumazaki (Oyama, Japan) and Akiyoshi Suzuki (Oyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser apparatus includes a first optical element, a second optical element, a first actuator configured to change a first wavelength component included in a pulse laser beam by changing a posture of the first optical element, a second actuator configured to change a second wavelength component included in the pulse laser beam b...