US Patent Issued to SCHOTT on Sept. 16 for "Components made of glass or glass ceramic having predamage along predetermined dividing lines" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,742, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Components made of glass or glass ceramic having predamage along predetermined dividing lines" was invented by Jens Ulrich Thomas (Mainz, Germany), Frank-Thomas Lentes (Bingen, Germany), Andreas Ortner (Gau-Algesheim, Germany), Jonas Schatz (Mainz, Germany) and Michael Kluge (Offenbach a.M., Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component includes a glass or glass ceramic having a thickness and a plurality of predamages. Each predamage of the plurality of predamages has a longitudinal axis and passes continuously through the thickness of the glass or the glass ...