ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,091, issued on July 14, was assigned to NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).

"Support glass substrate and laminated substrate using same" was invented by Ryota Suzuki (Shiga, Japan), Ken Yuki (Shiga, Japan), Tetsuya Murata (Shiga, Japan), Tomonori Ichimaru (Shiga, Japan) and Yuta Nagano (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support glass substrate of the present invention is a support glass substrate for supporting a substrate to be processed, the support glass substrate including lithium aluminosilicate-based glass, having a content of Li2O of from 0.02 mol % to 25 mol % in a glass composition, and having an avera...