US Patent Issued to CORNING on Nov. 25 for "Photosensitive glasses and glass ceramics and composite glass materials made therefrom" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,759, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Photosensitive glasses and glass ceramics and composite glass materials made therefrom" was invented by George Halsey Beall (Big Flats, N.Y.), Nicholas Francis Borrelli (Elmira, N.Y.), Joseph Francis Schroeder III (Lindley, N.Y.) and Thomas Philip Seward III (Elmira, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photosensitive lithium zinc aluminosilicate glasses that can be selectively irradiated and cerammed to provide patterned regions of glass and lithium-based glass ceramic, and composite glass articles made from such glasses and glass ceramics are provided. The lithiu...