US Patent Issued to CORNING on June 30 for "Glasses and glass-ceramics and methods of making them" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,522, issued on June 30, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Glasses and glass-ceramics and methods of making them" was invented by Timothy Michael Gross (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Alexandra Lai Ching Kao Andrews Mitchell (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Phosphate glasses and glass-ceramics exhibit a positive percent kill as measured by United States EPA Test Method for Efficacy of Copper Alloy Surfaces as a Sanitizer and/or have a CIELAB L* value below 35, CIELAB a* and b* values within 5 of zero."

The patent was filed on March 30, 2022, under Application No. 17/708,096.

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