US Patent Issued to Air Products and Chemicals on Oct. 14 for "Method for tin bath monitoring and control" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,646, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Method for tin bath monitoring and control" was invented by Reed Jacob Hendershot (Orefield, Pa.), Liang He (Allentown, Pa.), Michael J. Gallagher (Coopersburg, Pa.) and Ranajit Ghosh (Macungie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling defects in a glass product produced in a tin bath furnace includes measuring at least one parameter of an atmosphere associated with the tin bath furnace, wherein the parameter is selected from the group consisting of dew point and density, correlating the measured parameter with defects in the ...