ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,516, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Laminate windows for infrared sensing systems" was invented by Thomas Michael Cleary (Elmira, N.Y.), William Keith Fisher (Corning, N.Y.), Sang Ki Park (Painted Post, N.Y.) and James Joseph Price (Corning, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a window for a sensing system comprising an asymmetric laminate structure. The asymmetric laminate structure comprises a first glass ply, a second glass ply, and an interlayer coupling the first glass ply to the second glass ply. The first glass ply is at least two times thicker than the second glass ply and is stre...