US Patent Issued to Owens-Brockway Glass Container on Nov. 4 for "High temperature and low pressure fining of submerged combustion or other glass" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,848, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. (Perrysburg, Ohio).

"High temperature and low pressure fining of submerged combustion or other glass" was invented by Zhongming Wang (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Liming Shi (Perrysburg, Ohio) and Qing Jiang (Sylvania, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing glass includes discharging an outflow (22, 1022) of fined molten glass from a fining tank (18, 1018) of a vacuum induction fining apparatus (10, 1010) and delivering the fined molten glass into a thermal conditioning tank (16, 1016) that is separated from the fining tank by an open space (26, 1026) ...