US Patent Issued to Corning on Feb. 24 for "Methods to control thermal variation during tube consumption in glass tube converting" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,407, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Methods to control thermal variation during tube consumption in glass tube converting" was invented by Christelle Ruby Barnard (Painted Post, N.Y.), Joseph Michael Matusick (Corning, N.Y.), Kevin Patrick McNelis (Elmira, N.Y.) and Connor Thomas O'Malley (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for producing articles from a glass tube include securing a working end of the glass tube in a glass tube holder of a converter having a plurality of processing stations including a heating station and a forming station. An initial length of the glass tube ...