ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,551, issued on July 1, was assigned to AGC GLASS EUROPE (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

"Method for manufacturing a partially textured glass article" was invented by Thomas Lambricht (Perwez, Belgium), Sebastien Caliaro (Morialme, Belgium), Sylvain Drugman (Morlanwelz, Belgium) and Loick Dogot (Gosselies, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a partially textured glass article that includes (a) providing partially textured mother glass substrate that includes a first main surface and a second main surface which are opposed to each other; (b) irradiating the first main surface of the glass substrate with a laser...