ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,532, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cardinal IG Co. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Staggered driving electrical control of a plurality of electrically controllable privacy glazing structures" was invented by Nicholas Schleder (Saint Paul, Minn.), Peter Whaley (Minneapolis) and Eric Berner (Ramsey, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical driver can be used to provide electrical drive signals to a first and second electrically controllable optical privacy glazing structures. A first electrical drive signal can be applied to the first privacy glazing structure and a second electrical drive signal can be applied to the second pri...