US Patent Issued to DEXERIALS on Sept. 30 for "Microfabrication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,338, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DEXERIALS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Microfabrication method" was invented by Akihiro Shibata (Miyagi, Japan), Naoto Kaneko (Tochigi, Japan) and Tsunemoto Kuriyagawa (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfabrication method is provided with which it is possible to easily form a fine periodic structure on a surface of any substrate. A glass precursor is applied to a substrate, and the glass precursor is irradiated with short-pulse laser light. By the irradiation with short-pulse laser light, the glass precursor is activated to undergo a thermal reaction, and a fine periodic structure can be...