ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,498, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"System and method for modification of substrates" was invented by Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas), Shrawan Singhal (Austin, Texas) and Lawrence R. Dunn (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to substrate planarization. More specifically, some embodiments of the present technology relate a versatile systems and methods for precision surface topography optimization known as planarization on nominally planar substrates. In some embodiments, a method for...