US Patent Issued to CORNING on Sept. 29 for "Glass manufacturing apparatus and methods of manufacturing glass" (New York, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,178, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Glass manufacturing apparatus and methods of manufacturing glass" was invented by Amit Bachar (Rockville Centre, N.Y.), Olus Naili Boratav (Ithaca, N.Y.), Brendan William Glover (Corning, N.Y.), Jiandong Meng (Painted Post, N.Y.), Vinay A Patel (Lexington, Ky.), Adam Scott Regula (Horseheads, N.Y.), Justin Shane Starkey (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Jeremy Walter Turner (Beaver Dams, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Glass manufacturing apparatus comprise a forming body configured to draw a glass forming ribbon and positioned within an enclosure. Glass manufacturin...