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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:
Dec. 02, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Zino Altman, Newtown, PA (US);
Edward Polkowski, Lloyd Harbor, NY (US);
Jay Brandinger, Pennington, NJ (US);
Brian Hoffman, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Westar Photonics, Inc., Pennington, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 2/600 ; B23K 2/606 ; B23K 2/602 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 2/600 ; B23K 2/606 ; B23K 2/602 ;
Abstract
There is provided a system and method for ablating a surface of a work-piece comprising a radiation source for providing an ablating beam and a plurality of adjustable reflective masks having predetermined mask patterns thereon. The reflective masks are sequentially positioned relative to said radiation source and in the path of said ablating beam for reflecting said ablating beam onto the surface of the work-piece to ablate the work-piece.