ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,228, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).
"Method of making a glass product, and a glass product" was invented by Stefan Knoche (Mainz, Germany), Matthias Kaffenberger (Mainz-Ebersheim, Germany), Stefan Bauer (Huffelsheim, Germany), Stefan Schmitt (Stadecken-Elsheim, Germany), Michael Hahn (Hohenstein, Germany), Volker Ohmstede (Bingen, Germany) and Ralph Seuwen (Schwabenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a glass product includes the steps of: melting a batch of a plurality of glass raw materials in a melting tank to form a glass melt; heating at least one of the plurality of glass...