ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,833, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris) and UNIVERSITE DE LILLE (Lille, France).

"Process for producing, at the end of a structure, a micro-or nano-component made of vitreous material produced by multi-photon photopolymerization" was invented by Guillaume Laffont (Gif sur Yvette, France), Marc Douay (Villeneuve D'Ascq, France) and Didier Pohl (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making of an optical device provided with a nano-structured or micro-str...