ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,056, issued on June 16, was assigned to Chongqing Aureavia Hi-tech Glass Co. Ltd. (Chongqing, China).

"Transparent strengthened glass ceramic having high stress depth, preparation method therefor and application thereof" was invented by Jingpeng Zhou (Chongqing, China), Yanqi Zhang (Chongqing, China) and Hao Huang (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a transparent strengthened glass ceramic having high stress depth. The crystal phase of the strengthened glass ceramic comprises spinel crystals and zirconium oxide crystals, and does not contain Li-containing crystals; the strengthened glass ceramic has a compre...