ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,655, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Windshield with optical windows for seal application" was invented by Steven Angus (Novi, Mich.), Tom F. Boettger (Dearborn, Mich.), Jeffrey R. Rowland (Brighton, Mich.), Stephanie Ross (Southfield, Mich.) and Roger Jones (Southfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle windshield includes a glass sheet and an overlay extending around a periphery of the glass sheet. The overlay includes a plurality of optical windows defined therein. A seal extends along a path delineated by the plurality of optical windows. The optical windows are sized to allow lig...