US Patent Issued to AGC GLASS EUROPE on Oct. 27 for "Segmented glass melting furnace" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,239, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AGC GLASS EUROPE (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

"Segmented glass melting furnace" was invented by Francois Bioul (Thorembais-Saint-Trond, Belgium), Nicolas Bourgeois (Gosselies, Belgium), Zakaria Habibi (Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium) and Fabrice Fasilow (Gosselies, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furnace for melting vitrifiable materials, including at least one first melting tank covered by a first melting crown and provided with electrical heating, a fining tank covered by a fining crown and provided with combustion heating, at least one first neck covered by a first crown and separating th...