US Patent Issued to Corning on Nov. 11 for "Methods of forming silica-titania glass articles with reduced striae dimensions" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,755, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Methods of forming silica-titania glass articles with reduced striae dimensions" was invented by William Robert Angell IV (Painted Post, N.Y.), John Edward Maxon (Canton, N.Y.) and Jeffrey Lee Sunderland (Colton, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a glass body, the process including flowing oxygen gas from a burner in a furnace at a flow rate of greater than 12.0 standard liters per minute and flowing a precursor gas mixture from the burner. The process further including oxidizing the precursor gas mixture with the oxygen gas to form glass...