ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,909, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Laser processing device and evaluation method" was invented by Ryuta Matsuo (Nagakute, Japan) and Takashi Motoyoshi (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser processing device includes: an oscillator that oscillates laser light; a mirror in which second laser light that is another part of laser light is reflected while first laser light that is a part of laser light is transmitted through the mirror to irradiate a processing target portion with second laser light, and first reflected light that is a part of reflected light in which second laser ...