ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,105, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Lamination member and glass composition" was invented by Yu Hanawa (Tokyo), Shuhei Ogawa (Tokyo) and Seiji Inaba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a laminated member, including: a glass member having a linear transmittance at a wavelength of 850 nm of 80% or more; a bonding layer containing a resin and lying on the glass member; and a Si-SiC member lying on the bonding layer, in which the glass member includes predetermined amounts of SiO2, Al2O3, B2O3, and P2O5, the Si-SiC member has an average linear expansion coefficient Alpha at 20 to...