US Patent Issued to Glaston Finland on Sept. 22 for "Tempering furnace and method for assembling tempering furnace" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,896, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Glaston Finland Oy (Tampere, Finland).

"Tempering furnace and method for assembling tempering furnace" was invented by Mikko Rantala (Tampere, Finland), Heikki Nurmi (Tampere, Finland), Antti Aronen (Tampere, Finland), Jari Kurvinen (Tampere, Finland) and Jukka Vehmas (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tempering furnace for a glass sheet, and method for assembling the tempering furnace. The furnace comprises a first furnace portion and a second furnace portion attached successively one after another in the lengthwise direction of the furnace. Each of said furnace portions comp...