US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Aug. 18 for "Laser apparatus and laser machining apparatus using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,620, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laser apparatus and laser machining apparatus using same" was invented by Masatoshi Nishio (Osaka, Japan), Manabu Nishihara (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshinori Sasaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laser apparatus (10) includes at least: a laser oscillator that emits laser light (LB); reflection mirrors (M1), (M2) that are disposed on an optical path of laser light (LB) and change the optical path; actuators (ACT1), (ACT2) that are respectively coupled to reflection mirrors (M1), (M2) and displace reflection mirrors (M1...