ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,603, issued on June 24, was assigned to SYNOVA S.A. (Duillier, Switzerland).

"Method for coring and slicing a CVD diamond product and apparatus for carrying it out" was invented by Bernold Richerzhagen (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland), Jeremie Diboine (Lausanne, Switzerland), Jerome Genton (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Amedee Zryd (Denges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) diamonds and their processing after fabrication. In particular, the present disclosures provides a method for coring and slicing a CVD diamond product, wherein the CVD diamond product...