US Patent Issued to Schott on Aug. 19 for "Hermetically sealed transparent cavity and package for same" (German, Swedish, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,544, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Schott AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Hermetically sealed transparent cavity and package for same" was invented by Thomas Zetterer (Landshut, Germany), Antti Maattanen (Tampere, Sweden), Jens Ulrich Thomas (Mainz, Germany), Robert Hettler (Kumhausen, Germany) and Yutaka Onezawa (Otsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a plurality of hermetically sealed packages, including the steps of: providing at least two substrates including a first substrate and a second substrate, at least one of the at least two substrates being a transparent substrate, the two substrates being arranged ...