US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on July 28 for "Method for enhancement of laser material processing via modulation of laser light intensity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,530, issued on July 28, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Method for enhancement of laser material processing via modulation of laser light intensity" was invented by Sonny S. Ly (Mountain House, Calif.), Jeffrey D. Bude (Livermore, Calif.), Gabriel Mark Guss (Manteca, Calif.), Wesley John Keller (Orinda, Calif.), Raluca A. Negres (Pleasanton, Calif.), Alexander M. Rubenchik (Livermore, Calif.) and Nan Shen (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a laser-based system and method for providing efficient melt removal of material from a surface of a m...