US Patent Issued to Vitro Flat Glass on July 22 for "Soda lime silica glass with high visible light transmittance" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,616, issued on July 22, was assigned to Vitro Flat Glass LLC (Cheswick, Pa.).

"Soda lime silica glass with high visible light transmittance" was invented by Jose Guadalupe Cid-Aguilar (Monterrey, Mexico), David R. Haskins (Gibsonia, Pa.) and Michael J. Buchanan (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a glass sheet having soda-lime-silica glass composition with a high visible light transmittance (LtC) of at least 89% with a dominant wavelength (DW) from about 490 to 505 nanometers and purity (Pe) of no more than 1% for control thickness of 5.66 mm and methods of making the same. The glass...