ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,367, issued on March 25, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo), AGC GLASS EUROPE (Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium), AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA INC. (Alpharetta, Ga.) and AGC Vidros do Brasil Ltda. (Sao Paulo).

"Antenna unit and window glass" was invented by Ryuta Sonoda (Tokyo) and Masaki Horie (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna unit to be used by being installed so as to face window glass for a building includes a radiating element, a phase control member situated on an exterior-side with reference to the radiating element and configured to control a phase of an electromagnetic wave radiated from the radiating element, and a c...