US Patent Issued to Corning on Nov. 4 for "Feedback control systems and methods for glass tube converting processes" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,852, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Feedback control systems and methods for glass tube converting processes" was invented by Christelle Ruby Barnard (Painted Post, N.Y.), Eric Michael Gross (Corning, N.Y.), Joseph Michael Matusick (Corning, N.Y.), Kevin Patrick McNelis (Elmira, N.Y.) and Connor Thomas O'Malley (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for providing feedback control of converters for converting glass tubes to glass articles include a model predictive control framework. The methods include operating the converter, providing target values for attributes of the glass art...