ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,436, issued on March 18, was assigned to LPKF LASER & ELECTRONICS AG (Garbsen, Germany).
"Single-piece reaction vessel made of glass, production method, and analysis method" was invented by Robin Kruger (Hannover, Germany), Malte Schulz-Ruhtenberg (Wunstorf, Germany), Jan Van Aalst (Garbsen, Germany) and Moritz Woller (Neustadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of production of glass reaction vessels includes irradiating a laser beam of a wavelength for which a first glass plate is transparent onto the surface of the first glass plate. The first hiss plate is etched. Etching of the first glass plate is terminated when...