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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 1994
Filed:
May. 12, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Abraham Gross, Rehovot, IL;
Assignee:
Optrotech Ltd., Ziona, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ; G02F / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346108 ; 346 / ; 359286 ;
Abstract
A laser marking apparatus includes at least one laser beam source, a multichannel acoustic modulator defining a plurality of at least partially overlapping modulation regions, apparatus for directing at least one laser beam from the at least one laser beam source through the multichannel acoustic modulator such that each laser beam extends across at least two of the at least partially overlapping modulation regions, and imaging apparatus for directing light from the modulator to a laser marking image plane.