US Patent Issued to NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS on May 12 for "Method for manufacturing reinforced glass, and reinforced glass" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,958, issued on May 12, was assigned to NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing reinforced glass, and reinforced glass" was invented by Takayuki Noda (Shiga, Japan) and Shigeyoshi Ito (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of manufacturing a tempered glass, including an etching step of etching a plate-shaped or sheet-shaped chemically tempered glass having a compressive stress layer in a surface thereof. The method further includes a step of preparing, as the chemically tempered glass before the etching, a chemically tempered glass, which has in at least part thereof a bendabl...