ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,598, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cardinal IG Co. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Systems and methods for operating one or more electrically controllable privacy glazing structures" was invented by Nicholas Schleder (Saint Paul, Minn.), Michael Eul (Grant, Minn.), William Emile Julien Schoettler (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Peter Whaley (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical response of a privacy glazing structure to an applied electrical sensing pulse can be measured, and one or more parameters of the privacy glazing structure can be characterized. The one or more parameters can be used to load one or more drive paramete...