ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,315, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory (China) and Zhongke Zhuoyi Greene Tech (Dongguan) Co. Ltd. (China).

"Glass tempering furnace and glass tempering method" was invented by Binghan Xie (Guangdong, China), Chao Fu (Guangdong, China) and Zhiheng Ren (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a glass tempering furnace and method. The glass tempering furnace includes a preheating furnace section, a heating furnace section, and a soaking furnace section. The preheating furnace section is divided into multiple sections along the glass traveling direction. Each section has a smoke su...