MUMBAI, India, July 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617073059 A) filed by Saint-Gobain Glass France on June 12, 2026, for Method For Determining At Least One Zone On The Surface Of A Glass Plate.

Inventors include Barbe, Tristan; Viaud, Quentin; Geoffray, Franois; and Jean, Cyril Number.

The application for the patent was published on July 10, 2026, under issue no. 28/2026.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining at least one zone on the surface of a glass plate. The method comprises the steps of: - obtaining (E10) a plurality of cutting planes for cutting the glass plate, wherein each cutting plane is optimised to remove the greatest number of defects from among a set of defects; - for each defect, determining (E20) an indicator representative of the number of cutting planes capable of removing the defect; - discretising (E30) the surface of the glass plate into a plurality of tiles; - for each tile and according to the determined indicators, determining (E40) a score representative of a capability of removing a defect located in the tile; - determining (E50) at least one zone on the surface of the glass plate according to the scores respectively associated with the tiles forming the zone.

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