ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,060, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Apparatus and method for controlling substrate thickness" was invented by Anatoli Anatolyevich Abramov (Painted Post, N.Y.), Anping Liu (Horseheads, N.Y.), Michael Yoshiya Nishimoto (Horseheads, N.Y.), William Anthony Whedon (Corning, N.Y.) and Jae Hyun Yu (Big Flats, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for controlling a thickness of a substrate, such as a glass ribbon. The control apparatus comprises a laser assembly and a shielding assembly. The laser assembly generates an elongated laser beam traveling in a propagation direction along an opt...