US Patent Issued to CORNING on March 3 for "Glass transport system" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,437, issued on March 3, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Glass transport system" was invented by Mitchell Bruce Haller (Horseheads, N.Y.), Jason Arthur Howles (Corning, N.Y.) and Mark Edwin Lee Mack (Millport, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass transport system configured to mitigate or stop damaging glass leaks by incorporating silica-containing structural components or introducing silica-containing materials to the advancing glass leak flow to cause the molten glass to interact with silica in the silica-containing material and increase the viscosity of the molten glass sufficiently to slowdown or stop the flo...