ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,704, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Glass-ceramics and glasses" was invented by Matthew John Dejneka (Corning, N.Y.) and Jesse Kohl (Horseheads, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass-ceramic includes glass and crystalline phases, where the crystalline phase includes non-stoichiometric suboxides of titanium, forming 'bronze'-type solid state defect structures in which vacancies are occupied with dopant cations."

The patent was filed on April 5, 2023, under Application No. 18/130,967.

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