ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,239, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Laminated glass" was invented by Yuhei Gima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminated glass includes a pair of glass plates, an interlayer film, and a functional element contacting with the interlayer film, and including conductive films, electrodes, an electrode section, a non-electrode section, a first reference surface, and a second reference surface. When an average value of a height of the electrode section is denoted as t1, an average value of a height of the electrode section as t2, and a length in a crosswise direction of the one of the electrodes as w, 0less th...