ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,046, issued on April 1, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Sealed devices comprising transparent laser weld regions" was invented by Leonard Charles Dabich II (Painted Post, N.Y.), Stephan Lvovich Logunov (Corning, N.Y.), Mark Alejandro Quesada (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are sealed devices comprising a first substrate, a second substrate, an inorganic film between the first and second substrates, and at least one weld region comprising a bond between the first and second substrates. The weld region can comprise a chemical compositi...