ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,788, issued on March 24, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Methods of cooling glasses post-ion exchange" was invented by Bethany Jon Alderman (Bath, N.Y.) and Alyssa Michelle Sergiyenko (Bath, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of manufacturing a glass-based article comprise: exposing an alkali-aluminosilicate glass-based substrate comprising opposing first and second surfaces defining a substrate thickness (t) to an ion exchange treatment to produce an ion exchanged glass-based substrate; and thereafter cooling the ion exchanged glass-based substrate in an environment having a starting temperature that is less...