ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,658, issued on April 14, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"System and method for platinum free melting of high index glasses" was invented by Curtis Richard Cowles (Corning, N.Y.), Patrick Paul Gill (Watkins Glen, N.Y.), George Paul Lindberg (Corning, N.Y.) and Adam Robert Sarafian (Corning, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustion burner employed in a submerged combustion vessel used to melt high index glass includes an arch positioned on a burner in the submerged combustion vessel. An amount of combustible gas flows through a first port disposed in a first haunch of the arch and through a second port disposed ...