ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,478, issued on April 21, was assigned to SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA (Mainz, Germany).
"Bottom forming process" was invented by Alexander Humbertjean (Mullheim, Germany), Tobias Wetzel (Mullheim, Germany) and Fatih Mutlu (Mullheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the preparation of a glass container from a glass tube in a glass processing machine includes the steps of: I) heating the glass tube at a defined position between a first portion and a second portion to a temperature above a glass transition temperature of the glass tube while the glass tube is rotating around its longitudinal axis Ltube and pulling ap...