ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,583, issued on April 22, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Glass articles having adhesive bead with high aspect ratio and method of preparing same" was invented by Jeffrey Michael Benjamin (Horseheads, N.Y.), Jennifer Hiras (Corning, N.Y.), Robert Daniel Parker (Beaver Dams, N.Y.) and Christopher Lee Timmons (Big Flats, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass article including a frame having a frame support surface, a glass sheet having a first major surface and a second major surface in which the second major surface is opposite to the first major surface, and an adhesive bead disposed between the frame support surfa...