US Patent Issued to MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS QUARTZ on Aug. 12 for "Systems and method for producing hollow quartz cylinders" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,712, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS QUARTZ INC. (Strongsville, Ohio).

"Systems and method for producing hollow quartz cylinders" was invented by Eugene Pruss (Avon Lake, Ohio), Frederic Ahlgren (Highland Hts., Ohio), Douglas Korwin (Akron, Ohio), Michael Plate (Stade, Germany) and Theodore Kircher (Pepper Pike, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to fabrication of quartz hollow cylinder with reduced bubbles using atmospheric control. An example horizontal rotating arc furnace includes a housing, supports, and a rotary union. The housing defines an interior configured to rece...