US Patent Issued to CORNING on Oct. 14 for "Methods and apparatus for manufacturing a glass ribbon" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,647, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Methods and apparatus for manufacturing a glass ribbon" was invented by James William Brown (The Villages, Fla.), Pierre Georges Brunello (Villecerf, France), Nils Paul Fornell (Harrodsburg, Ky.), Misha Andre Gerschel (Skillman, N.J.), Keith Mitchell Hill (Horseheads, N.Y.), Mark Thomas Massaro (Murray, Ky.), Gary Edward Merz (Rochester, N.Y.) and Stephane Poissy (Brunoy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for manufacturing a glass ribbon include moving the glass ribbon along a travel path in a travel direction. Methods include directing a first ribbon ...