ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,140, issued on May 13, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Salt bath systems for strengthening glass articles and methods for regenerating molten salt" was invented by Sinue Gomez-Mower (Corning, N.Y.), Kenneth Edward Hrdina (Horseheads, N.Y.), Kai Tod Paul Jarosch (Corning, N.Y.), Yuhui Jin (Painted Post, N.Y.), Tyler John Lucci (Evanston, Ill.), Wei Sun (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Madison Kathleen Tindle (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to salt bath systems for strengthening glass articles including a salt bath tank defining a first interior volume enclose...