US Patent Issued to CORNING on June 2 for "High-index silicoborate and borosilicate glasses" (French, South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,813, issued on June 2, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"High-index silicoborate and borosilicate glasses" was invented by Paulo Jorge Gaspar Marques (Herblay sur Seine, France), Antoine Marie Joseph Lepicard (Melun, France), Jian Luo (Painted Post, N.Y.), Lina Ma (Corning, N.Y.), Alexander I. Priven (Sejong-si, South Korea) and Adam Robert Sarafian (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Glass compositions include titania (TiO2), lanthanum oxide (La2O3), boron oxide (B2O3), silica (SiO2) as essential components and may optionally include zirconia (ZrO2), niobia (Nb2O5), calcium oxide (CaO), barium oxide (BaO), yttr...