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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2016
Owens-brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Scott Cooper, Maumee, OH (US);
Varun Mukheja, Toledo, OH (US);
Tilak Gullinkala, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Abstract
A glass precursor gel and methods of melting the glass precursor gel are disclosed. The glass precursor gel contains a bulk amorphous oxide-based matrix that contains one or more synthesis byproducts. One method includes obtaining the glass precursor gel with the bulk amorphous oxide-based matrix having one or more synthesis byproducts, exposing the glass precursor gel to microwave radiation, and heating and/or melting the glass precursor gel into a molten glass with the microwave radiation by way of the one or more synthesis byproducts.