US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Feb. 18 for "Methods for laser bonding optical elements to substrates and optical assemblies fabricated by the same" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,772, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Methods for laser bonding optical elements to substrates and optical assemblies fabricated by the same" was invented by David Mark Lance (Elmira, N.Y.) and Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for laser bonding optical elements to substrates and optical assemblies are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method of bonding an optical element to a substrate includes disposing at least one optical element onto a surface of the substrate, electrostatically affixing the at least one optical ...