ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,025, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Scalable electronics manufacturing with rigid tile panel embedding" was invented by Markondeyaraj Pulugurtha (Miami), Satheesh Bojja Venkatakrishnan (Miami), John Volakis (Miami) and Sajith Rathnayaka (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for electronic manufacturing, including use of a rigid tile-in-polymer film panel. Rigid tiles can be molded with a thin polymer composite to form the rigid tile-in-polymer film panel. The rigid panel can be made of silicon, glass, ceramic ribbon, or traditional gla...