US Patent Issued to CORNING on Aug. 25 for "Method of manufacturing sheets of glass with reduced total thickness variation" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,804, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Method of manufacturing sheets of glass with reduced total thickness variation" was invented by Douglas Dale Bressler (Julian, Pa.), David Alan Deneka (Corning, N.Y.), Miki Eugene Kunitake (Elmira, N.Y.), Ivan Fedorovich Melikhov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Ilia Andreyevich Nikulin (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Jia Zhang (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a sheet of glass comprises: (a) forming a vertically oriented ribbon of glass that moves downward as a function of time, the ribbon of glass having a first primary surface and a sec...