ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,253, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Spray coating apparatuses with turn nozzle assemblies and methods of coating glass objects" was invented by James Michael Brown (Elmira, N.Y.), Brian Charles Cook (Elkland, Pa.), Daniel Warren Hawtof (Milton, Del.), Purushotam Kumar (Corning, N.Y.), Sean Thomas Miller (Elmira, N.Y.), Bruce Arthur Mourhess Jr. (Campbell, N.Y.), Elias Panides (Horseheads, N.Y.), James Westley Rogacki (Franklinville, N.Y.), John Stone III (Painted Post, N.Y.), Yujian Sun (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Leo Young Zheng (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spray coating apparatu...