ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,649, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Quantum Valley Ideas Laboratories (Waterloo, Canada).

"Forming a bonded interface using plasma-activated surfaces" was invented by Rajesh Pandiyan (Kitchener, Canada), Somayeh M.A.Mirzaee (Kitchener, Canada), Sanyasi Bobbara (Waterloo, Canada), Su-Peng Yu (Waterloo, Canada), Sohail Abdul Jalil (Kitchener, Canada), Hadi Amarloo (Waterloo, Canada), Sean Michael O'Neill (Elora, Canada) and James P. Shaffer (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a general aspect, a bonded interface in a vapor cell is formed using plasma-activated surfaces. In some aspects, manufacturing a vapor cell inc...