ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,508, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Nanolithography using pulsed laser direct writing" was invented by Xiaoming Yu (Orlando, Fla.) and Boyang Zhou (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser patterning method may include fabricating one or more precursor sites on a sample, generating an illumination beam including one or more pulse bursts, each pulse burst including two or more laser pulses, and scanning the illumination beam across the sample along a scan pattern including locations of the one or more precursor sites. At least one of intensities, ...