ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,931, issued on July 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optimization for raster scanning" was invented by Vinith Bejugam (Chandler, Ariz.), Kristof Darmawikarta (Chandler, Ariz.), Yonggang Li (Chandler, Ariz.), Samuel George (Chandler, Ariz.) and Srinivas Pietambaram (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to semiconductor dies and methods that provide a glass substrate, a pulsed laser tool to produce a line-shaped modification to the glass substrate for forming a plurality of structures in the glass substrate. The pulse laser tool may be provided with a predetermined patte...