ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,642, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Laser processing apparatus and laser processing method" was invented by Kenta Fujii (Tokyo), Kyohei Ishikawa (Tokyo), Nobuaki Tanaka (Tokyo) and Motoaki Nishiwaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser processing apparatus includes a control device controlling laser processing in accordance with processing condition; a detection unit observing processing state on a time-series basis during laser processing and outputting a signal corresponding to observation result as a time-series signal; a parameter estimation unit estimating and outputting, based on...