US Patent Issued to AGC on Oct. 21 for "Vehicular exterior member and far-infrared camera equipped vehicular exterior member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,549, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Vehicular exterior member and far-infrared camera equipped vehicular exterior member" was invented by Tatsuo Nagashima (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Kenji Kitaoka (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention aims to provide a vehicular exterior member that is excellent in strength and cost, and sufficiently ensures a viewing field of sharpness of a thermal image obtained by a far-infrared camera. A vehicular exterior member that includes a light blocking region and is configured to be attached to a vehicle equipped with a far-infrared camera. The vehicula...