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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2022
Markem-imaje Corporation, Keene, NH (US);
Stewart W. Wilson, Clearwater, FL (US);
Markem-Imaje Corporation, Keene, NH (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for a universal laser system including a laser operable to produce an infrared laser beam for a range of wavelengths, an optics assembly operable to focus and direct the laser beam, and electronics communicatively coupled with the laser and the optics assembly, the electronics being configured to control the laser and the optics assembly, where the laser is configured to produce the infrared laser beam at wavelengths in the range of wavelengths that overlap with absorption peaks due to higher-order, non-linear oscillations of molecular bonds of each polymeric material of at least ten different polymeric materials, thereby generating heat from absorption of photon energy from the infrared laser beam.