ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,167, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to LPKF LASER & ELECTRONICS SE (Garbsen, Germany).

"Substrate made of glass and method for the production thereof" was invented by Roman Ostholt (Langenhagen, Germany), Norbert Ambrosius (Garbsen, Germany), Daniel Dunker (Hannover, Germany), Aaron Michael Vogt (Hannover, Germany) and Sergej Schneider (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate made of glass includes an essentially dimensionally stable portion, one or more flexible portions, and one or more recesses on one side or which do not penetrate the substrate, and which is/are disposed in an outer surface of the substrat...