ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,617, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Method for processing glass filament" was invented by Seyed Reza Sandoghchi (Romsey, Great Britain), Peter Charles Shardlow (Romsey, Great Britain), Andrew Paul Appleyard (Romsey, Great Britain) and Andrew Thomas Harker (Romsey, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing glass filament comprises: providing a length of glass filament from which a portion is to be separated from the remainder of the filament; directing energy onto the filament in order to cause a decrease in a width of the filament at a desired locatio...