ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,167, issued on June 24, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Enhanced ion exchange methods" was invented by Qiao Li (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Santona Pal (Corning, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of manufacturing a glass-based article include exposing a glass-based substrate to a molten salt bath including a first salt and a second salt. In aspects, the first salt includes a metal ion that has a larger ionic radii than an alkali metal of the glass-based substrate and a first anion, and the second salt dissolved in the molten salt bath includes the same metal ion as the first salt and a second anion different from t...