US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on June 23 for "Laser beam intensity adjustment method and laser beam intensity adjustment apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,740, issued on June 23, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Laser beam intensity adjustment method and laser beam intensity adjustment apparatus" was invented by Hideharu Shichi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for emitting an incident laser beam that is a linearly polarized laser beam at a predetermined intensity, includes: an intensity changing optical element (polarization beam splitter) disposed on the optical path of the incident laser beam, for changing the intensity of an outgoing laser beam by allowing a transmission of a component of the incident laser beam polarized in a predetermined va...