ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,373, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laser processing device and laser processing method using same" was invented by Jingbo Wang (Hyogo, Japan), Masatoshi Nishio (Osaka, Japan), Kenzo Shibata (Hyogo, Japan) and Manabu Nishihara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser processing device includes a laser oscillator, first to third optical fibers, a beam control mechanism, and first to third laser light emitting heads attached to the first to third optical fibers, respectively. The beam control mechanism includes a condenser lens, first to third optical pa...