US Patent Issued to CORNING on June 24 for "Glass ceramic devices and methods with tunable infrared transmittance" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,169, issued on June 24, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Glass ceramic devices and methods with tunable infrared transmittance" 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: "Devices, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed that include a glass or glass ceramic substrate with a bleached region and an unbleached region. Examples include a substrate with a region that transmits IR wavelength light, and a region that is substantially opaque to IR light. Examples include additional opacity in some or all regions to visible wavelength light and/or UV wavele...