ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,641, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).
"Printed appliance component" was invented by Urban Weber (Weiler bei Bingen, Germany), Inga Gheczy (Wiesbaden, Germany), Jochen Drewke (Mainz, Germany), Kevin Duval (Penetanguishene, Canada), Lucas Alousis (Riesweiler, Canada) and Stephanie Mangold (Klein-Winternheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an appliance component is provided. The appliance component has an operational front side and back side and has a substrate made of thermally tempered flat glass with a coating. The method includes the steprs of: a) providing a glass substra...