ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,032, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Neuralink Corp. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Dicing and partial dicing release of lithographed device" was invented by Yu Niu Huang (Fremont, Calif.), Peter J. Gilgunn (Fremont, Calif.), Dominic A. Herincx (Fremont, Calif.) and Zachary M. Tedoff (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method for fabricating a cantilever section in a structure, which includes providing a structure comprising a substrate, a compliant layer and a sacrificial layer therebetween; cutting part-way through the substrate to create an at least one linear partial cut; releasing the sacrificial la...