US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on July 21 for "Workpiece position determination device, laser machining device, and workpiece position determination method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,093, issued on July 21, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Workpiece position determination device, laser machining device, and workpiece position determination method" was invented by Shogo Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece position determination device includes an imager, a driver to move the imager relative to a workpiece in a planar direction parallel to a planar surface of the imager, a controller to control the driver so that the imager moves along a prescribed trajectory that passes through locations in a boundary portion in the planar surface in a plan view, a storage to st...