US Patent Issued to CORNING on July 1 for "Enhanced evanescent prism coupling systems and methods for characterizing stress in chemically strengthened curved parts" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,629, issued on July 1, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Enhanced evanescent prism coupling systems and methods for characterizing stress in chemically strengthened curved parts" was invented by Rostislav Vatchev Roussev (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Nathaniel David Wetmore (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for obtaining a corrected digital mode spectrum for a chemically strengthened (CS) substrate having a curved surface are disclosed. The methods include digitally capturing transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) mode spectra of the CS substrate to form a digital mode spectrum ...