US Patent Issued to AGC on Aug. 5 for "Method of producing melt, method of producing glass article, melting apparatus, and equipment for producing glass article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,147, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing melt, method of producing glass article, melting apparatus, and equipment for producing glass article" was invented by Terutaka Maehara (Tokyo), Yoji Doi (Tokyo), Takashi Enomoto (Tokyo), Akifumi Niwa (Tokyo) and Shuntaro Hyodo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a melt includes contacting a first heating element directly with an inside of a solid-liquid mixture layer including a batch raw material of glass and a mixture of solid and liquid phases denatured from the batch raw material to apply thermal energy to the solid-liquid mixtur...