ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,860, issued on June 17, was assigned to CNBM RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED GLASS MATERIALS GROUP Co. LTD. (Bengbu, China).
"Facade elements with patterned cover plate and optical interference layer" was invented by Joerg Palm (Munich) and Lutz Tautenhahn (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facade element having a transparent cover plate and an opaque back element mounted on the cover plate. The cover plate has an outer surface facing the external environment and an inner surface facing the back element. The outer surface has a patterned region on which an interference layer is arranged. Alternatively, the interferenc...