ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,415, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Low-temperature fired, lead-free glass frit, paste, and vacuum glass assembly using same" was invented by Wongyu Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Seok Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass frit according to this application may include a composition of P2O5, V2O5, TeO2, CuO, ZnO, and BaO configured to replace a conventional lead glass composition and enable a low temperature calcination. A coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the glass frit may be matched with that of a glass substrate. The composition may not include a...