US Patent Issued to CORNING on Oct. 27 for "Method of strengthening glass and such glasses" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,246, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Method of strengthening glass and such glasses" was invented by Timothy Michael Gross (Painted Post, N.Y.), Alexandra Lai Ching Kao Andrews Mitchell (Ithaca, N.Y.), Jamie Vargeson (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Wendell Porter Weeks Jr. (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a strengthened glass article comprises soaking a glass article in a bath comprising molten salt. The molten salt comprises alkali metal ions. During the soaking, the alkali metal ions of the salt are exchanged for smaller alkali metal ions of glass of the glass arti...