ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,320, issued on April 8, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Cold-formed laminates" was invented by William Keith Fisher (Corning, N.Y.), Mark Stephen Friske (Campbell, N.Y.), Steven Luther Moyer (Lancaster, Pa.) and Paul George Rickerl (Endicott, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The principles and embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to complexly curved laminates made from a complexly curved substrate and a flat substrate, such as automotive window glazings, and methods of cold forming complexly-curved glass products from a curved substrate and a flat substrate. In one or more embodiments, the laminate...