US Patent Issued to SCHOTT on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for producing thin glass and thin glass ribbon produced thereby" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,320, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for producing thin glass and thin glass ribbon produced thereby" was invented by Jose Zimmer (Eppstein, Germany), Holger Wegener (Alfeld/Leine, Germany) and Alexander Storch (Alfeld/Leine, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a flat thin glass ribbon is provided. The method includes the steps of drawing melted glass downward away from a tank in a pulling direction while applying tensile forces which act in the pulling direction to form the thin glass ribbon having a thickness of at most 250 micro metre and cooling the th...