Patent ID: 8317562

Claim:
A method of making a glass package comprising: depositing a frit-containing paste on a major surface of a first glass substrate in a predetermined pattern; sintering the frit-containing paste to form a sintered frit; placing the first glass substrate on a second glass substrate such that the sintered frit is positioned between the first and second glass substrates; traversing a laser beam over the sintered frit to melt the frit, thereby bonding the first glass substrate to the second glass substrate to form a glass package comprising the first glass substrate, the second glass substrate, and a wall that comprises the sintered glass frit and separates the first and second substrates; scoring and breaking the glass package to a predetermined size wherein: (a) the glass package has first and second sides: (b) the wall has first and second sides that are substantially parallel to the first and second sides of the package, respectively; (c) the first side of the glass package and the first side of the wall are separated by a distance D first ; (d) the second side of the package and the second side of the wall are separated by a distance D second ; and trimming the glass package such that at least one of D first and D second is less than or equal to 200 microns.