ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,440, issued on March 3, was assigned to OHARA Inc. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Method for producing crystallized glass member having curved shape" was invented by Moriji Nozaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshitaka Yagi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kohei Ogasawara (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To obtain a crystallized glass member having a curved shape and provide a method for producing the same. A method for producing a crystallized glass member having a curved shape, including a deformation step for adjusting the temperature of a plate glass to a first temperature zone from higher than [At+40]deg C. to [At+146]deg C. or lower, where At i...