US Patent Issued to CORNING on Sept. 22 for "Conveyance apparatus and method with adjustable fluid flow" (Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,899, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Conveyance apparatus and method with adjustable fluid flow" was invented by Nils Paul Fornell (Harrodsburg, Ky.), Keith Mitchell Hill (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Craig Gene Stewart (Lawrenceville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for manufacturing a glass article includes a glass conveyance apparatus that includes a plenum chamber having a fluid inlet, a plurality of slide gates in fluid communication with the plenum chamber that include a plurality of apertures and are movable from a first position to a second position, and a fluid bearing t...