ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,341, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Siltectra GmbH (Dresden, Germany).
"Method for producing a detachment region in a solid-state body" was invented by Jan Richter (Dresden, Germany), Christian Beyer (Freiberg, Germany) and Ralf Rieske (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a detachment region in a solid-state body includes: providing a solid body that consists of a chemical compound comprising a combination of elements from the 3rd, 4th and 5th main group and subgroup 12 of the Periodic Table of the Elements; providing a laser light source; and exposing the solid body to laser beams from the la...