ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,618, issued on July 22, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Fracture and scratch resistant glass articles" was invented by Timothy Michael Gross (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Charlene Marie Smith (Corning, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of glass compositions, glass articles and chemically strengthened glass articles are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the glass composition comprises Li2O, greater than about 0.9 mol % B2O3, Al2O3 in an amount greater than or equal to 10 mol %, and from about 60 mol % to about 80 mol % SiO2. Embodiments of the chemically strengthened glass article include a first major sur...