US Patent Issued to CORNING on March 3 for "Glass-ceramic compositions and methods of making thereof" (Pennsylvania, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,444, issued on March 3, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Glass-ceramic compositions and methods of making thereof" was invented by Erin Coon (Lewisburg, Pa.), Qiang Fu (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Alana Marie Whittier (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A silicate-based composition includes: 40-80 mol % SiO2, less than0-25 mol % MO, 15-40 mol % R2O, less than0-10 mol % Al2O3, less than0-10 mol % P2O5, and less than0-5 mol % ZrO2, such that MO is a sum of BeO, MgO, CaO, SrO, and BaO; and R2O is a sum of Li2O, Na2O, K2O, Rb2O, Cs2O."

The patent was filed on June 21, 2021, under Application No. 18/010,676.

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