ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,607, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ushio Denki K.K. (Tokyo).

"Optical heating device with angled light holding substrate and method of heating treatment thereof" was invented by Tomonori Yoshida (Tokyo) and Takahiro Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an optical heating device and method of heating treatment capable of adjusting the illuminance distribution on the main surface of a substrate to be treated more precisely. An optical heating device that heats a substrate to be treated by irradiating light, the optical heating device includes; a support member supporting the substrate to be treated; and...