ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,140, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TRUMPF LASERSYSTEMS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).
"Method and device for generating laser pulses" was invented by Joachim Schulz (Gerlingen, Germany) and Guenther Krauss (Holzgerlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating laser pulses includes generating first laser pulses and second laser pulses using at least one laser source, and amplifying the first laser pulses and second laser pulses using an optical amplifier. Each respective second laser pulse passes through the optical amplifier offset in time in relation to a respective first las...