ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,157, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AGC GLASS EUROPE (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and EURO-MULTITEL (Mons, Belgium).
"Apparatus for removing at least one portion of at least one coating system presenting a multi-glazed window and associated method" was invented by Julien Dupuy (Mons, Belgium), Yves Hernandez (Mons, Belgium), Jerome Hily (Mons, Belgium) and Eric Morgante (Gosselies, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for removing a portion of a coating system present in a multi-glazed window including: a decoating component to focus a laser source at a focus distance; two motors to move the decoating component along ...