ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,927, issued on April 29, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).
"Laminated glass" was invented by Shunsuke Sadakane (Tokyo) and Hideaki Hayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laminated glass for a vehicle includes a vehicle-interior side glass plate, a vehicle-exterior side glass plate, an interlayer film that bonds the vehicle-interior side glass plate and the vehicle-exterior side glass plate, and a structure sealed in the interlayer film. The interlayer film includes a first interlayer film bonded to the vehicle-interior side glass plate, a second interlayer film bonded to the vehicle-exterior side glass plate, and a third interl...