US Patent Issued to Corning on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for measuring the temperature of glass during tube conversion" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,148, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for measuring the temperature of glass during tube conversion" was invented by Keith Raymond Gaylo (Painted Post, N.Y.), Lewis Kirk Klingensmith (Corning, N.Y.), Joseph Michael Matusick (Corning, N.Y.) and Connor Thomas O'Malley (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for producing articles from glass tube includes a converter having a base with a plurality of processing stations and a turret moveable relative to the base. The turret indexes a plurality of holders for holding the glass tubes successively through the processing...