ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,319, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Apparatus and methods for fabricating a glass ribbon" was invented by Alexey Sergeyevich Amosov (Avon, France), Olivier Fournel (Yerres, France), Vladislav Yuryevich Golyatin (Avon, France) and Xavier Tellier (Cheroy, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus can comprise a conduit with at least one slot of a plurality of slots comprising an intermediate length including a maximum width that is less than a maximum width of a first end portion and/or a maximum width of a second end portion of the slot. In some embodiments, methods produce a glass ribbon with ...