US Patent Issued to CORNING on March 4 for "Foldable substrates, foldable apparatus, and methods of making" (New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,781, issued on March 4, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Foldable substrates, foldable apparatus, and methods of making" was invented by Gabriel Pierce Agnello (Corning, N.Y.), Joy Banerjee (Corning, N.Y.), Vitor Marino Schneider (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Ian David Tracy (Hampstead, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects, a concentration of lithium oxide at a surface is greater than a concentration of lithium oxide at a midpoint by from about 0.2 mol % to about 2 mol %. In aspects, a concentration of lithium oxide at a surface is from about 0.2 mol % to about 2 mol %. In aspects, a total concentration of potassiu...