US Patent Issued to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY on March 3 for "Structured discrete beam formation for cutting transparent substrates" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,898, issued on March 3, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Structured discrete beam formation for cutting transparent substrates" was invented by Joachim Ahner (Livermore, Calif.) and David Tung (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes emitting an ultra-short pulse laser beam from a laser source. The method also includes forming the laser beam into a plurality of discrete beams via an optical array, where intersecting discrete beams form a structured light pattern comprising a plurality of voxels. A first subset of the plurality of voxels defining a line and a second subset of the pl...