ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,749, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).

"Glass plate structure, diaphragm, and opening member" was invented by Kento Sakurai (Tokyo) and Jun Akiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass sheet composite includes: two or more sheets; and an intermediate layer between at least a pair of the sheets. At least one of the pair of sheets is a glass sheet. The intermediate layer satisfies all of the following properties: (1) the intermediate layer has a thickness of 20 micro metre or less, (2) a compressive shear storage modulus at a temperature of 25deg C. is 1.0x104 Pa or less, and (3) at the temperature of 25de...