ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,631, issued on July 21, was assigned to OHARA Inc. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Glass and crystallized glass" was invented by Nozomu Oda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshitaka Yagi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Glass and crystallized glass of the glass, the glass containing, by mass % in terms of an oxide, 40.0 to 55.0% of a SiO2 component, 10.0 to 30.0% of an Al2O3 component, 10.0 to 30.0% of an MgO component, 5.0 to 15.0% of a TiO2 component, and more than 0 to 8.0% of an Na2O component."

The patent was filed on July 8, 2021, under Application No. 18/020,069.

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