US Patent Issued to AGC on March 31 for "Heater and apparatus and method for manufacturing glass product" (British, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,376, issued on March 31, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).

"Heater and apparatus and method for manufacturing glass product" was invented by Terutaka Maehara (Tokyo), Akifumi Niwa (Tokyo), Shuntaro Hyodo (Tokyo), Yukihito Akita (Tokyo), Takashi Enomoto (Tokyo), Yoji Doi (Tokyo), Roger Pauli (Stourbridge, Great Britain) and Lawrence Keen (Stourbridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater includes a heat generating member being conductive and configured to radiate heat rays by being fed with electric power, and a tubular member constituting of a metal and accommodating the heat generating member, wherein the heat gene...