ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,548, issued on July 1, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Methods for making controllably bonded sheets" was invented by Kaveh Adib (Corning, N.Y.), Robert Alan Bellman (Ithaca, N.Y.), Jiangwei Feng (Ithaca, N.Y.), Georgiy M Guryanov (Boca Raton, Fla.), Jhih-Wei Liang (Toufen, Taiwan), Shiwen Liu (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Prantik Mazumder (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are articles and methods of making articles, including a first sheet and a second sheet, wherein the thin sheet and carrier are bonded together using a coating layer, preferably a hydrocarbon polymer coating layer, and associate...