US Patent Issued to TEL Manufacturing and Engineering of America on July 21 for "Optical elements patterning" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,776, issued on July 21, was assigned to TEL Manufacturing and Engineering of America Inc. (Chaska, Minn.).

"Optical elements patterning" was invented by Angelique Raley (Albany, N.Y.), Luis Fernandez (North Chelmsford, Mass.), Brian Pfeifer (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) and Joshua Larose (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a substrate with a gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) that includes: receiving, at a GCIB controller, control signals from a tool controller to change a GCIB process parameter during a GCIB scanning process, the changing in the GCIB process parameter associated with a variation in the depth of...