US Patent Issued to AGC on July 15 for "Protective plate-equipped reflective member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,496, issued on July 15, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).

"Protective plate-equipped reflective member" was invented by Kouichirou Takahashi (Tokyo), Osamu Kagaya (Tokyo), Akira Kumagai (Tokyo) and Shimpei Nagae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective plate-equipped reflective member includes a reflective member that reflects or re-radiates a radio wave incident thereon; and a protective plate that is installed on a radio wave-incident side of the reflective member, wherein d=AlphaxLambda0/(1.75xEpsilonr0.555) and Alpha is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 1.25, where a wavelength specified with respect ...