ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,412, issued on June 23, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for processing thin glass ribbons" was invented by Jeffrey Robert Amadon (Lexington, Ky.), Antoine Gaston Denis Bisson (Painted Post, N.Y.), Norman Bradley Dunning (Salvisa, Ky.), Romain Jeanson (Fleury en Biere, France), Rohit Rai (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Seung Hee Won (Asan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods for processing a glass ribbon. A glass ribbon is supplied to an upstream side of a conveying apparatus comprising a conveyor device and a pulling device. The conveyor device establishes a prima...