ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,656, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Epinovatech AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Reinforced thin-film device" was invented by Martin Andreas Olsson (Lund, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforced thin-film device is disclosed. The reinforced thin-film device comprising: a substrate having a top surface for supporting an epilayer; a mask layer patterned with a plurality of nanosize cavities disposed on said substrate to form a needle pad; a thin-film of, relative to the substrate, lattice-mismatched semiconductor disposed on said mask layer, wherein said thin-film comprises a plurality of in parallel spaced semiconductor needles of sai...