ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,532, issued on June 30, was assigned to INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY (Goyang-si, South Korea).

"Glass having visual internal roughness and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Yong Gyu Choi (Goyang-si, South Korea), Ji In Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Se Young Ko (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This chemically tempered glass is manufactured by preparing a slurry or paste including a salt solution of a second ion to undergo ion exchange with a first ion inside a glass, applying the slurry or the paste onto the surface of the glass to form a coating film, drying the...