US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on Feb. 24 for "Three-dimensional printing of glass micro-optics" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,839, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Three-dimensional printing of glass micro-optics" was invented by Rongguang Liang (Tucson, Ariz.), Douglas A. Loy (Tucson, Ariz.), Zhihan Hong (Tucson, Ariz.) and Piaoran Ye (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention features a liquid, solvent-free, silica precursor and two-photon 3D printing process to meet the increasing needs of high-precision glass micro-optics and address the major limitations of current three-dimensional (3D) printing optics. The printed optical elements may be fully...