ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,000, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LPKF LASER & ELECTRONICS AG (Garbsen, Germany).

"Two-part reaction vessels made of glass, production method and analytical method" was invented by Robin Kruger (Hannover, Germany), Malte Schulz-Ruhtenberg (Wunstorf, Germany), Jan Van Aalst (Garbsen, Germany) and Moritz Woller (Neustadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing reaction vessels from glass and to the glass reaction vessels obtainable by this method. The method comprises the following steps: 1. irradiating the surface of a first glass sheet by means of a laser beam of a wavelength for ...