ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,765, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).
"Transparent glass ceramic and cover pane" was invented by Meike Schneider (Mainz, Germany), Bernd Rudinger (Mainz, Germany) and Uwe Martens (Mainz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent, chemically prestressable or chemically prestressed glass ceramic has a high transmittance, a low haze and a high crystal phase content of keatite solid solution. A method of making such a glass ceramic includes producing a silicate green glass with a melting process and subsequent hot shaping, temperature treating the silicate green glass with at least one nucleation ...