US Patent Issued to AGC on May 6 for "Method for forming molten glass, forming apparatus, and method for producing glass product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,475, issued on May 6, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Method for forming molten glass, forming apparatus, and method for producing glass product" was invented by Motoichi Iga (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Toru Kamihori (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Masanori Nakano (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a method for forming molten glass, capable of easily improving the forming accuracy of molten glass. One embodiment of the method for forming molten glass of the present invention comprises a supplying in which molten glass having a temperature of at least the softening point is discharged in a strip shape and sup...