ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,064, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS Co. LTD. (Otsu, Japan).
"Decorative glass article" was invented by Naoki Fujita (Otsu, Japan) and Shinsaku Nishida (Otsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative glass article contains: in mol %, 10% to 70% of La2O3, 10% to 90% of Nb2O5, 0% to 40% of B2O3, and 0% to 50% of TiO2, wherein a refractive index is 2.0 or more and an Abbe number is 50 or less."
The patent was filed on March 26, 2020, under Application No. 17/598,490.
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