US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU, OSAKA UNIVERSITY on July 21 for "Laser apparatus and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,076, issued on July 21, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Laser apparatus and control method" was invented by Masahiro Tsukamoto (Suita, Japan), Yuji Sato (Suita, Japan), Keisuke Takenaka (Suita, Japan), Ritsuko Higashino (Suita, Japan) and Koji Tojo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser apparatus includes six first laser devices that output respective blue laser beams for preliminary heating of an object, and a second laser device that outputs an infrared laser beam for main heating of the object. At least one of a relative positional relationship and each of respectiv...