US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN on Sept. 23 for "Corner block for glass furnace" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,151, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN (Courbevoie, France).

"Corner block for glass furnace" was invented by Isabelle Cabodi (Cavaillon, France) and Pierrick Vespa (Aix-en-Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A corner block for a glass furnace tank. The corner block has an outer surface including: upper and lower surfaces delimiting the length of the corner block, right and left surfaces to be in contact with corresponding surfaces of adjacent blocks, a hot face to be in contact with the environment inside the tank, and a cold face, opposite the hot face. A main po...