US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on Nov. 3 for "Apparatus and method for the manufacture of large glass lens arrays" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,608, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Apparatus and method for the manufacture of large glass lens arrays" was invented by James Roger P. Angel (Tucson, Ariz.), Nicholas J. Didato (Tucson, Ariz.) and Ryker Eads (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing large lens arrays from glass includes heating glass to take a form of a glass sheet of viscous liquid glass floating on liquid metal. Large lens arrays are made by the method and devices and systems are used for making the large lens arrays. The glass sheet has a lower surfac...