US Patent Issued to II-VI DELAWARE on June 24 for "Multi-component device and method of making a multi-component device" (Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,187, issued on June 24, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Multi-component device and method of making a multi-component device" was invented by Kyle Branigan (Wilmington, Del.) and Mike Aghajanian (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a ceramic substrate formed of a first material, a polishable layer formed of a different material, and an interface between the ceramic substrate and the polishable layer. The interface is formed by infiltration of molten elemental silicon, and bonds the ceramic substrate and the polishable layer together. The device may include an optical device such ...