ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,696, issued on June 2, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Surface processing equipment" was invented by Chih-Chieh Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chih-Chiang Weng (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Yo-Sung Lee (New Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface processing equipment using energy beam including a multi-axis platform, a surface profile measuring device, an energy beam generator and a computing device is provided. The multi-axis platform is configured to carry a workpiece and move the workpiece to the first position or the second position. The surface profile measuring device ...