US Patent Issued to Corning on Dec. 30 for "Substrate processing station for laser-based machining of sheet-like glass substrates" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,384, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Substrate processing station for laser-based machining of sheet-like glass substrates" was invented by Thomas Hackert (Jahnsdorf, Germany), Frank Fabian Herrnberger (Munich), Michael Klein (Gilching, Germany), Albert Roth Nieber (Painted Post, N.Y.), Florian Spaeth (Eching, Germany) and Marco Andre Wolfert (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass sheet processing apparatus includes a first gantry assembly that extends across a glass sheet in a cross-machine direction. The first gantry assembly includes a processing head that moves along a length of the first...