ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,983, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ORVINUM AG (Magden, Switzerland).
"Apparatus for creating a hole in a glass container" was invented by Markus Ehrat (Magden, Switzerland), Claudio Furrer (Dagmersellen, Switzerland) and Beat Luscher (Suhr, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an apparatus for creating a hole in a glass container with a medium stored therein, comprising: a laser system configured to focus laser pulses with a wavelength in the ultraviolet regime onto the glass container such as to create a hole in the glass container by laser ablation preferably without creating significant amounts of...