ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,721, issued on May 27, was assigned to QROMIS Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Polycrystalline ceramic substrate" was invented by Vladimir Odnoblyudov (Danville, Calif.), Cem Basceri (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Shari Farrens (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engineered substrate structure includes a ceramic substrate having a front surface characterized by a plurality of voids, and a barrier layer encapsulating the ceramic substrate. The barrier layer defining a plurality of valleys corresponding to the plurality of voids. The engineered substrate structure further includes a first bonding layer comprising a bonding layer mater...