US Patent Issued to Jenoptik Optical Systems on June 24 for "Method for integrally bonding a glass element to a support element, and optical device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,183, issued on June 24, was assigned to Jenoptik Optical Systems GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Method for integrally bonding a glass element to a support element, and optical device" was invented by Guido Hergenhan (Jena, Germany) and Jochen Taubert (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of integrally bonding a glass element to a support element, the method comprising a step of inserting at least one contact element into a contact recess in a surface of the support element. In addition, the method comprises a step of placing the glass element on a portion of the contact element which portion protrudes beyond the surface, and...