US Patent Issued to Corning on April 15 for "Glass compositions with improved chemical and mechanical durability" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,671, issued on April 15, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Glass compositions with improved chemical and mechanical durability" was invented by Paul Stephen Danielson (Dundee, N.Y.), Steven Edward DeMartino (Painted Post, N.Y.), Melinda Ann Drake (Corning, N.Y.), Robert Michael Morena (Lindley, N.Y.), Santona Pal (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Robert Anthony Schaut (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments described herein relate to chemically and mechanically durable glass compositions and glass articles formed from the same. In embodiments, the glass composition may include 74-78 mol. % SiO2; X mol. %...