US Patent Issued to CORNING on June 23 for "Apparatus and methods for separating edge portions from a glass ribbon" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,410, issued on June 23, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Apparatus and methods for separating edge portions from a glass ribbon" was invented by James William Brown (The Villages, Fla.), Anping Liu (Horseheads, N.Y.), Ching Yao Wang (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Naiyue Zhou (Leland, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass manufacturing apparatus including a forming apparatus, the forming apparatus including an edge separation assembly. The edge separation assembly includes a scoring device with a scoring tool coupled thereto, a backing roller, a pair of stabilizing rollers configured to pinch a central portion of the ...