ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,701, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN SEKURIT FRANCE (Thourotte, France).
"Device and method for shaping a glass sheet" was invented by Philippe Frebourg (Senlis, France), Gaetan Sciacchitano (Ermont, France) and Thibault Rapenne (Noyon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bending station for a bending device, includes two bending molds, a pressing frame arranged to adapt to the glass sheet and to press it against an upper mold, the upper mold including a molding face, the area of which, defined by projecting the contour of the upper mold onto a horizontal plane, is greater than the area defined by projecting the o...