ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,025, issued on March 31, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for processing glass elements" was invented by Andreas Ortner (Gau-Algesheim, Germany), Ulla Trinks (Mitterteich, Germany), Fabian Wagner (Mainz, Germany), Carsten Etz (Ingelheim, Germany), Daniela Seiler (Dittelsheim-HeBloch, Germany), Michael Kluge (Offenbach, Germany), Peter Czepelka (Mainz-Kostheim, Germany), Frank-Thomas Lentes (Bingen, Germany), Andre Witzmann (Waldershof, Germany) and Reiner Artmann (Mitterteich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing glass elements is provided. The method includes introducing a ...