ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,204, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Glasses with modified young's modulus profile" was invented by Timothy Michael Gross (Painted Post, N.Y.), Adam Robert Sarafian (Corning, N.Y.), Jingshi Wu (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Zheming Zheng (Horseheads, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Glass-based articles that include a reduced Young's modulus layer extending from a surface of the glass-based article to a depth of layer and an optional compressive stress layer extending from a surface of the glass-based article to a depth of compression are formed by exposing glass-based substrates to water vapor containi...