US Patent Issued to OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL on Feb. 18 for "Method of fabricating a through glass via on a suspended nanocrystalline diamond" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,446, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL Corp. (Okinawa, Japan).

"Method of fabricating a through glass via on a suspended nanocrystalline diamond" was invented by Stoffel Dominique Janssens (Okinawa, Japan), David Vazquez-Cortes (Okinawa, Japan), Alessandro Giussani (Okinawa, Japan) and Eliot Martin Fried (Okinawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low-cost and robust platforms are key for the development of next-generation 3D micro- and nanodevices. To fabricate such platforms, nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) is a highly appealing material due to its biocompatibility, robustness, a...