ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,197, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Method of surface structuring a substrate body and substrate body" was invented by Andreas Ortner (Gau-Algesheim, Germany), David Sohr (Mainz, Germany) and Jens Ulrich Thomas (Mainz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing and/or carrying out the structuring of a predetermined or predeterminable distinguished surface of a substrate body having a substrate material includes exposing the substrate material in at least one curved effective area to an electromagnetic field which in each of the at least one curved effective area causes a non-linear in...