ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,036, issued on April 22, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Methods for forming glass ceramic articles" was invented by I-Wen Chou (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Carol Ann Click (Corning, N.Y.), Shuo Cui (Burlington, Mass.), James Howard Edmonston (Corning, N.Y.), Mathieu Gerard Jacques Hubert (Corning, N.Y.) and Katherine Weber Kroemer (Horseheads, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming glass ceramic articles includes heating a stack of glass sheets to a nucleation temperature to create a nucleated crystallizable stack of sheets; heating the nucleated crystallizable stack of glass sheets to a crystallization tempera...