US Patent Issued to Corning on Sept. 1 for "Direct heated edge director assembly" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,996, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Direct heated edge director assembly" was invented by Siyuan Chang (Corning, N.Y.), Gilbert De Angelis (Lindley, N.Y.), Chunhong Chelsie He (Horseheads, N.Y.), Juan Camilo Isaza (Corning, N.Y.), Bulent Kocatulum (Horseheads, N.Y.), Timothy L Lansberry (Watkins Glen, N.Y.), Kyung-jin Lee (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea), Gaozhu Peng (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Andrew Voss Welles (Horseheads, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass manufacturing apparatus including a forming apparatus having a forming body and a directly electrically heated edge director assembly att...