ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,088, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Schott AG (Federal Repuuilc of, Germany).
"Optical component and glass composition as well as use thereof" was invented by Bianca Schreder (Sulzbach, Germany), Ute Wolfel (Mainz, Germany), Stephanie Hansen (Gensingen, Germany) and Ralf Biertumpfel (Mainz-Kastel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass includes cations of the following components in the indicated amounts (molar proportion in cat.-%): 30-80 cat.-% silicon; 0-20 cat.-% boron; 0-2 cat.-% aluminum; 5-35 cat.-% sodium; 2-25 cat.-% potassium; 0-0.5 cat.-% nickel; 0-0.5 cat.-% chromium; and 0.03-0.5 cat.-% cobalt. A sum of the ...