US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 26 for "Fused quartz dual shell resonator and method of fabrication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,008, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Fused quartz dual shell resonator and method of fabrication" was invented by Andrei M. Shkel (Irvine, Calif.), Mohammad H. Asadian Ardakani (Irvine, Calif.) and Yusheng Wang (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-shell architecture and methods of fabrication of fused quartz resonators is disclosed. The architecture may include two encapsulated and concentric cavities using plasma-activated wafer bonding followed by the high-temperature glassblowing. The dual-shell architecture can provide a protective shield as well ...