US Patent Issued to CORNING on Oct. 21 for "Versatile glass forming conveyor with 3-D vacuum forming capability" (Pennsylvania, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,313, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Versatile glass forming conveyor with 3-D vacuum forming capability" was invented by Douglas Dale Bressler (Julian, Pa.), David Alan Deneka (Corning, N.Y.), William Edward Lock (Horseheads, N.Y.), Phillip Richard MacCormack (Rochester, N.Y.) and Thomas Matthew Sonner (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of methods and systems are provided, which detail: a method, comprising: depositing a hot, flexible glass-containing ribbon along a plurality of sequentially conveyed molds; rolling a pinch roller over the surface of the glass-containing ri...