US Patent Issued to SCHOTT Pharma Schweiz on Aug. 11 for "Method and apparatus for the hot forming of glass workpieces, and hot-formed glass container" (Chinese, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,654, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SCHOTT Pharma Schweiz AG (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for the hot forming of glass workpieces, and hot-formed glass container" was invented by Xaver Jud (Neukirch a.d. Thur, Switzerland), Robert Lee (Suzhou City, China) and Sherry Jiang (Suzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hollow glass article is a container or part of a vessel having a neck or shoulder region and a wall. The glass article encompasses the wall and the neck or shoulder region of the container. The wall has a round or oval cross section and the container has a characteristic surface region on a...