B23K 26/06
Shaping the laser beam
Official title: Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing
B23K26/06 (Shaping the laser beam) appears on 6,760 US grants and 8,397 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 8,397
- Assignees
- 2,526
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 392 | 469 |
| 2025 | 359 | 407 |
| 2026 | 249 | 278 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Laser machining apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,752,369 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Laser welding apparatus and laser welding method6 Oct 2026US 12,752,370 B2NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Femtosecond laser surface processing for controlled fill and targeted deposition6 Oct 2026US 12,752,371 B1Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
- Laser beam irradiation apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,752,372 B2Disco Corporation
- Laser processing device and laser processing method using same6 Oct 2026US 12,752,373 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Methods of patterning substrates8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307168 A1University of Rochester
- Laser machining system for a timepiece component and laser machining process8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307169 A1Rolex SA
- Coaxial laser hotwire head8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307170 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Additive manufacturing systems and related methods utilizing risley prism beam steering8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307171 A1VulcanForms Inc.
- Laser machining system for a component and laser machining process8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307175 A1Alphanov
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for direct laser cutting of metal stents552US 5,780,807 AAdvanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. · 1998
- Copper conductor annealing process employing high speed optical annealing with a low temperature-deposited optical absorber layer534US 7,335,611 B2APPLIED Materials.Inc. · 2008
- Ultrashort pulse high repetition rate laser system for biological tissue processing480US 5,720,894 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1998
- Apparatus and method for manufacturing a semiconductor device472US 10,103,040 B1ASM IP Holding B. V. · 2018
- Formation of heteroepitaxial layers with rapid thermal processing to remove lattice dislocations469US 9,929,011 B2Ultratech, Inc. · 2018