ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,438, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to STANLEY BLACK & DECKER INC. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Laser level cooling" was invented by Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko (Baldwin, Md.), Jia Yong Jiang (Suzhou, China), Steven J. Phillips (Ellicott City, Md.), Michael C. Schmittdiel (Baltimore), Devansh K. Jhawar (Baltimore), Akash Agarwal (Baltimore), Jb Ring (Vienna, Va.), Sukrutkumar Babasaheb Bhandare (Timonium, Md.), Jose Guadalupe Ramirez (Owings Mills, Md.), Alexander J. Morgan (Jarrettsville, Md.), Daniel J. White (Baldwin, Md.), Prathamesh S. Desai (Towson, Md.), Sergey Galitskiy (Rockville Vernon, Conn.), Yen-Ting Lai (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Po Hsien Tung (Taichung City, Taiwan).

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