US Patent Issued to Medtronic, Corning on Oct. 28 for "Kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond structures and methods" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,117, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis) and Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond structures and methods" was invented by Michael S. Sandlin (Chandler, Ariz.), David A. Ruben (Mesa, Ariz.), Raymond M. Karam (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Georges Roussos (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas M. Wynne (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bulk materials having a kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond is provided. The bulk materials having a kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond includes transparent material, absorbent opaque material and a diffusion bo...