US Patent Issued to AGC on June 17 for "Near-infrared cut filter glass and optical filter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,985, issued on June 17, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).

"Near-infrared cut filter glass and optical filter" was invented by Takahiro Sakagami (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kazuhiko Shiono (Fukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A near-infrared cut filter glass has: an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 400-550 nm of 50-92%; a transmittance at a wavelength of 700 nm of 40-92%; an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 850-950 nm of 0.0001-70%; and an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 1200-2500 nm of 0.0001-60%."

The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 2021, under Application No. 17/645,553.

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