US Patent Issued to Schott on Oct. 14 for "Method and apparatus for producing hollow glass body products, and hollow glass body products and their use" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,648, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Schott AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for producing hollow glass body products, and hollow glass body products and their use" was invented by Andre Witzmann (Waldershof, Germany) and Fabian Wagner (Mainz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus is provided for producing a hollow glass body product including a hollow glass body having an outer surface with a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portion being sealed by a first bottom and the second end portion being sealed by a second bottom. A plurality of spaced apart filamentary defects ar...