US Patent Issued to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital on Sept. 15 for "Glass composition for producing high strength and high modulus fibers" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,345, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital LLC (Toledo, Ohio).

"Glass composition for producing high strength and high modulus fibers" was invented by Douglas Alan Hofmann (Hebron, Ohio) and Peter Bernard McGinnis (Gahanna, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass composition including SiO2 in an amount from about 70.6 to about 79.6% by weight, Al2O3 in an amount from about 10.0 to 18.5% by weight, MgO in an amount from about 10.0 to about 19.0% by weight, CaO in an amount from about 0.1 to about 5.0% by weight, Li2O in an amount from 0.0 to about 3.0% by weight, and Na2O in an amount from 0.0 to ...