ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,513, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Schott AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Laser processing of a multi-phase transparent material, and multi-phase composite material" was invented by Andreas Ortner (Gau-Algesheim, Germany), Niklas Bisch (Lorzweiler, Germany), Fabian Wagner (Mainz, Germany), Albrecht Seidl (Niedernberg, Germany) and Frank-Thomas Lentes (Bingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method provides for producing modifications in or on a transparent workpiece using a laser processing device. The laser processing device has a short pulse or ultrashort pulse laser that emits laser radiation having a wavelength in the transp...