ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,760, issued on May 27, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).

"Glass substrate" was invented by Takeaki Ono (Tokyo), Koki Moriya (Tokyo), Toru Ikeda (Tokyo) and Kensuke Fujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass substrate includes a first major surface, a second major surface, an end surface, a first boundary surface, a second boundary surface, and a bent portion in which the first major surface is bent so as to be concave and the second major surface is bent so as to be convex. The bent portion includes a portion in which a distance D1 from the end surface to the first major surface in a tangential direction, extending from the ...