ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,717, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Device and a method of manufacturing a device, such as a liquid lens, with bond configured to fracture at the same burst pressure" was invented by Naigeng Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Stephan Lvovich Logunov (Corning, N.Y.), Weiwei Luo (Painted Post, N.Y.), Mark Alejandro Quesada (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Bo Yang (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprising: a first substrate; and a second substrate bonded to the first substrate via an innermost bond, an outermost bond, and bonds between the innermost bond and the outermost bond, the second substr...