US Patent Issued to Corning on Oct. 7 for "Laser forming non-square edges in transparent workpieces using modified airy beams" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,331, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Laser forming non-square edges in transparent workpieces using modified airy beams" was invented by Anping Liu (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Craig John Mancusi Ungaro (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes directing a laser beam onto a phase-adjustment device such that the laser beam downstream the phase-adjustment device is a modified Airy beam having a modified Airy beam focal region having a main lobe and a plurality of side lobes. The main lobe has a lobe aspect ratio of 1.2 or greater."

The patent was filed on Aug. 17, 2021, under Application...