ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,142, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).

"Glass compositions, glass articles, and methods of making the same" was invented by Carly Jean Mathewson (University Park, Pa.), John Christopher Mauro (University Park, Pa.), Venkatraman Gopalan (University Park, Pa.) and John Victor Badding (University Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are glass compositions, articles made from the disclosed glass compositions, and methods of making the same. More specifically, disclosed herein is a glass composition comprising from about 10 to about 14 mol % of K2O; from 0 to a...