US Patent Issued to mb-microtec on July 22 for "Fabrication of glass cells for hermetic gas enclosures" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,831, issued on July 22, was assigned to mb-microtec ag (Niederwangen, Switzerland).

"Fabrication of glass cells for hermetic gas enclosures" was invented by Serge Lukas Zihlmann (Gasel, Switzerland) and Johannes Peter Kind (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating one or more glass cells includes drawing one or more glass capillaries from a source of glass material. The method includes performing a first conditioning of one or more inner surfaces of the one or more capillaries. The method includes sealing one or more first ends of the one or more capillaries using thermal energy. The method includes pe...