US Patent Issued to SCHOTT on March 11 for "Glass substrate for vehicle glazing, in particular for the windscreen of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,980, issued on March 11, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Glass substrate for vehicle glazing, in particular for the windscreen of a vehicle" was invented by Thomas Seuthe (Jena, Germany), Thilo Zachau (Neuengonna, Germany), Thomas Schmiady (Jena, Germany), Sandra von Fintel (Jena, Germany) and Jochen Alkemper (Klein Winternheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a glass substrate for vehicle glazing, in particular for a windscreen of a vehicle, which comprises hot forming of a borosilicate glass, wherein in a hot forming section, at least during stretching of the glas...