US Patent Issued to CORNING on March 3 for "Glass with nanoscale surface features from thermal poling and methods for forming the same" (New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,447, issued on March 3, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Glass with nanoscale surface features from thermal poling and methods for forming the same" was invented by Michael Thomas Gallagher (Painted Post, N.Y.), Charles Thomas McLaren (Elmira, N.Y.), Mardochee Reveil (Alexandria, Va.) and Nicholas James Smith (Port Matilda, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass substrate with modified surface regions is disclosed. The glass substrate includes a first side and an opposite second side, an alkali-containing bulk disposed between the first and second sides, and a first alkali-depleted region formed in the alkali-contai...