US Patent Issued to CORNING on Aug. 4 for "Method of increasing IOX processability on glass articles with multiple thicknesses" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,234, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Method of increasing IOX processability on glass articles with multiple thicknesses" was invented by Chai Hsin Kuang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Sheng Min Lin (Horseheads, N.Y.) and I-Ting Tsai (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing glass-based articles having sections of different thicknesses is provided, where a maximum central tension in a thinner section is less than that of a thicker section. The method includes reducing the thickness of a region of a glass-based article that includes a compressive stress layer extending from a...