ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. RE51,104, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Lithium containing glass or glass ceramic article with modified K2O profile near the glass surface" was invented by Ryan Claude Andrews (Elmira, N.Y.), Jill Marie Hall (Elmira, N.Y.), Pascale Oram (Painted Post, N.Y.), Rostislav Vatchev Roussev (Painted Post, N.Y.), Vitor Marino Schneider (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Ljerka Ukrainczyk (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium containing glass article is provided. In aspects, the lithium containing glass article includes an intensity coupling profile including a plurality of coupling resonances. A first of the...