US Patent Issued to CORNING on Nov. 18 for "Laminating thin strengthened glass to curved molded plastic surface for decorative and display cover application" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,726, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Laminating thin strengthened glass to curved molded plastic surface for decorative and display cover application" was invented by Michael Timothy Brennan (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Yawei Sun (Elmira, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process comprises cold-forming a flat glass substrate into a non-planar shape using a die. The cold-formed glass substrate is bonded to a non-planar rigid support structure at a plurality of non-planar points using the die. Bonding methods include injection molding the non-planar rigid support structure, and direct bonding. An artic...