ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,869, issued on June 3, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Method of structuring a glass element and structured glass element produced thereby" was invented by Andreas Ortner (Gau-Algesheim, Germany), Fabian Wagner (Mainz, Germany), Markus Heiss-Chouquet (Bischofsheim, Germany), Annika Horberg (Mainz, Germany), Michael Drisch (Mainz, Germany), Vanessa Glasser (Mainz, Germany), Lukas Walter (Oestrich-Winkel, Germany), Andreas Koglbauer (Trebur, Germany), Lars Muller (Wiesbaden, Germany), David Sohr (Mainz, Germany), Bernd Hoppe (Ingelheim, Germany) and Michael Kluge (Offenbach am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...