US Patent Issued to SILICON LIGHT MACHINES on Sept. 8 for "Laser marking system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,482, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SILICON LIGHT MACHINES Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Laser marking system and method" was invented by Gregory Jacob (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stephen Hamann (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexander Payne (Ben Lommond, Calif.), Lars Eng (Los Altos, Calif.) and James Hunter (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser marking system including a spatial light modulator (SLM) with a multi-pixel, linear array of is microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based diffractors, and methods of operating the same are disclosed. Generally, the system includes, in addition to the SLM, a laser operable to illum...