ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,854, issued on May 20, was assigned to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital LLC (Toledo, Ohio).

"Process for drying wet glass fibre forming packages" was invented by Etienne Roux (Sonnaz, France) and Philippe Boissonnat (Challes les eaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein is described a process for drying wet glass fibre forming packages, the process comprising: providing a wet glass fibre forming package comprising a strand of glass fibres with an aqueous sizing applied to the glass fibres; and subjecting the wet glass fibre forming package to microwave radiation having a frequency in the range of about 750 to about 1050 MH...