US Patent Issued to CORNING on Dec. 2 for "Extrusion dies with zoned coatings, methods of fabricating such dies, and methods of manufacturing ceramic articles" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,574, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Extrusion dies with zoned coatings, methods of fabricating such dies, and methods of manufacturing ceramic articles" was invented by Thomas William Brew (Corning, N.Y.), Keith Norman Bubb (Beaver Dams, N.Y.), Ryan Joseph Grohsmeyer (Addison, N.Y.), Michael James Lehman (Canisteo, N.Y.), Kenneth Charles Sariego (Beaver Dams, N.Y.) and Min Shen (Horseheads, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extrusion die (16) including a plurality of pins (38) having side surfaces defining an intersecting array of slots (30) extending axially into the die (16) from a discharge fa...