US Patent Issued to CORNING on March 24 for "Lithium containing glasses" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,783, issued on March 24, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Lithium containing glasses" was invented by Timothy Michael Gross (Painted Post, N.Y.), Xiaoju Guo (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Charlene Marie Smith (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass article including, on an oxide basis, from 60 mol % to 74 mol % SiO2, from 7 mol % to 18 mol % Al2O3, less than or equal to 16 mol % B2O3, from 0 mol % to 6 mol % Na2O, greater than or equal to 0.5 mol % SrO, and greater than or equal to 0.5 mol % of divalent cation oxides. The glass article has a molar ratio of Al2O3:(R2O+RO) greater than or equal to 0.9, where R2O is ...