US Patent Issued to CORNING on Dec. 2 for "Glass with modified surface regions and methods and apparatuses for forming the same via electro-thermal poling and field-assisted ion exchange" (New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,198, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Glass with modified surface regions and methods and apparatuses for forming the same via electro-thermal poling and field-assisted ion exchange" was invented by Cody Vic Cushman (Painted Post, N.Y.), Michael Thomas Gallagher (Painted Post, N.Y.), Charles Thomas McLaren (Elmira, N.Y.), Mardochee Reveil (Alexandria, Va.) and Nicholas James Smith (Port Matilda, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass substrate with modified surface regions is disclosed. The glass substrate includes an alkali-containing bulk, a first alkali-depleted region, a second alkali-depleted r...