US Patent Issued to CORNING on May 20 for "Chemically strengthenable lithium aluminosilicate glasses with inherent damage resistance" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,856, issued on May 20, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Chemically strengthenable lithium aluminosilicate glasses with inherent damage resistance" was invented by George Halsey Beall (Big Flats, N.Y.), Matthew John Dejneka (Corning, N.Y.), Qiang Fu (Painted Post, N.Y.), Sinue Gomez (Corning, N.Y.), Robert Michael Morena (Lindley, N.Y.) and Charlene Marie Smith (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A group of glass compositions in the Li2O-Al2O3-SiO2-B2O3 family that can be chemically strengthened in single or multiple ion exchange baths containing at least one of NaNO3 and KNO3 for a short time (2-4 hours) to de...