ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,757, issued on March 25, was assigned to EVERIX INC. (Orlando, Fla.).
"Structured preforms for thermal drawing" was invented by Esmaeil Banaei (Orlando, Fla.) and Justin Boga (Orlando, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may generate a multi-layer stack of sheets that may be adhered into a slab-shaped preform for thermal drawing. The sheets may include sublayers. Stacking the sub-layered sheets results in accumulation of layers in the final fabricated preform. The stacking process may use mechanical translation and conveyance to support placement of the sheets and fabrication of the stack."
The patent was filed on May 15, ...