Patent 10494292 was granted and assigned to Corning on December, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Silicate glasses that are fictivated and fast cooled and have high levels of intrinsic or “native” damage resistance. When ion exchanged, the silicate glasses described herein have a Vickers crack initiation threshold of at least 15 kgf and, in some embodiments, at least about 25 kgf.