ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,686, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Laser machining system" was invented by Kenta Fujii (Tokyo), Motoaki Nishiwaki (Tokyo) and Kyohei Ishikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device that executes machining to cut a workpiece into a part and a remaining material; a detection unit that determines, as a time-series signal, a result of observing in time series a state of the workpiece; a machining state evaluation unit that determines, as evaluation information, a result of evaluation on a state of the machining for each of sections obtained by dividing the machining path, based on th...