ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,872, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Methods of cleaning glass" was invented by Huayun Deng (Painted Post, N.Y.), Deqiu Fan (Painted Post, N.Y.), Mingqian He (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Weijun Niu (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of cleaning glass comprise mixing the glass with a peroxide-containing aqueous solution and heating the glass at a temperature of about 100deg C. or more. In aspects, 50 wt % of the peroxide-containing aqueous solution based on an amount of the glass is mixed with the glass. The peroxide-containing aqueous solution can be removed from the glass before th...