US Patent Issued to CORNING on April 21 for "Assembly for supporting an electrical flange in a glass manufacturing apparatus" (New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,477, issued on April 21, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Assembly for supporting an electrical flange in a glass manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Gilbert De Angelis (Lindley, N.Y.), Raymond Eugene Fraley (Waverly, N.Y.), Benjamin Pelham Schrock (Wilmington, N.C.) and Tytus Lee Zimmerman (Columbia Cross Roads, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for conveying molten glass includes an electrical flange attached to a metallic vessel and an electrical flange support apparatus coupled to an electrode portion of the electrical flange and configured to prevent distortion of the metallic vessel and misalignme...