ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,904, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOWA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Laser processing device and processed article manufacturing method" was invented by Hikaru Kimura (Kyoto, Japan), Hideo Ichihashi (Kyoto, Japan), Keita Mizuma (Kyoto, Japan), Shun Hirano (Kyoto, Japan) and Takeshi Yachiguchi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a laser processing device that enables a film to be stabilized and processed. The present invention comprises: a conveyance mechanism that conveys a film; a holding mechanism that has a pair of holding parts which can at least sandwich and hold lateral portions of the processing range of th...