ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,903, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany) and SCHOTT TECHNICAL GLASS SOLUTIONS GMBH (Jena, Germany).

"Cover glass with an anomalous stress profile, process for production thereof and use thereof" was invented by Lars Mueller (Wiesbaden, Germany), Ruediger Dietrich (Jena, Germany), Thomas Pfeiffer (Ingelheim, Germany), Julian Koch (Mainz, Germany), Bernd Ruedinger (Woerrstadt, Germany), Meike Schneider (Taunusstein, Germany) and Jochen Alkemper (Klein-Winternheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover glass made of a glass ceramic that is silica based and has a main crystal phase of high quartz soli...